Public health aspects concerning health and health-care of unregistered migrants have been rarely investigated. This article aims at providing some empirical data which are derived from the documentation and annual reports of two health-care institutions specialised in health-care for unregistered migrants in Germany and Italy taking into account the different legal regulations between Germany and Italy for the health-care of irregular migrants. The data show that the patients in both institutions are rather young and immigrated often from East Europe and the former Soviet Union. Their main diseases did not differ much from the average spectrum except for showing a higher prevalence of "poverty-related illnesses" like infectious and skin diseases.
People with social problems and risks very often also suffer from health problems and risks. This refers to at least 10% of the population. We were interested to learn how many articles in the leading German journal of Public Health "Das Gesundheitswesen" are dealing with this topic of social inequality and health. From 1990 to 1999 just 5.4% of the 1399 published articles deal with this topic. The authors mainly came from social epidemiology; practical research was rare. This also seems to be a consequence of a lack of research in the departments of social work education.
Telepopulism: Media and Politics in Israel, Yoram Peri,
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004, pp. 376.This is an ambitious work that does not achieve all that it sets out
to do but is nevertheless stimulating and provocative. Peri tries to
combine a general summary of the literature on media and politics in a
rapidly changing technological environment with an application to the
Israeli political system and a detailed analysis of how the government of
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (1996–1999) fits into the picture.
It appears that Peri's views on his general subject have been greatly
affected by his observations during the Netanyahu years. Indeed he sees
that prime minister as the quintessential practitioner of media-centred
politics on the Israeli scene.
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