International migration and health: Sick
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Elizabeth M. Thomas-Hope
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Article
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1992
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Human migration has contributed to the redistribution of diseases from regions where they were endemic, thereby creating new areas where the task of control and management has become necessary. This is the case with respect to the major haemoglobinopathies -sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia -in t