Migration and its health and social problems in the Czech Republic. Part I

Our paper considers the present situation in the care of migrants' health in the CR, its legislative aspects and attached problems as they are reported by our medical institutions. It underlines that the number of migrants in the CR is growing and that the necessity arises to create longitudinal strategic conception in their care, which would try to face social and medical problems connected with this phenomenon. Epidemiological studies carried out among the population of Europe come to the conclusion, that generally disease and injury is bigger among migrants than among the population in general. Our paper comes to similar conclusion in the examination of economic migrants (coming from Vietnam and Cuba) as well as of Czech manual workers who have been working abroad for a long time. The care of migrants health represents a new and important problem, not only for health institutions, but also for education, employment and social ones.