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IJE Advance Access published online on April 17, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dym027
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Globalized migration and transnational epidemiology

Margaret A Handley1,* and James Grieshop2

1Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
2Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis, USA.

* Corresponding author. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA. E-mail: handleym@fcm.ucsf.edu

Keywords Transnational, Oaxaca, lead, global health, epidemiology

Accepted 6 February 2007

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During the latter part of the 1800s, the union of migration and epidemiology first surfaced. In that era, the changing shipping patterns that put more people from cholera endemic areas into London, as well as the isolated occurrence of two cholera cases among recent immigrants from Germany to London, bolstered by John Snow's belief that cholera was transmitted from person to person.1 Other studies in more recent times that have focused on migrants from Japan, first to Hawaii and then to mainland US, provided evidence for ‘lifestyle’ theories (including migration) for risk . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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