Influenţa migraţiei de muncă asupra sănătăţii migranţilor

Abstract

The contemporary society with its changing values and traditions increasingly affects people’s health. Increased rhythm of social life, presence of continuous stress, looking for a better place for living, enormous migration mobility aggravates the state of population health. The objective of the research was to study the health problems caused by migration and determinants. 1,207 respondents have been interviewed in all regions (the North, Center and South) of the Republic of Moldova. The survey period was January 2013-April 2013. The average age when the migrants went abroad for the first time was 28.5 ± 0.9 years, but generally the age of first leaving varies from 18 to 56 years. The study detected that before leaving abroad health status in the majority of labor migrants (89.9%) was good. The labor migrants pay attention to their health only when they cannot endure the pain or perform the work that they consider usual. Working abroad, at the best, they ignore the factors that worse the situation, they do not care for their health believing that after returning home they will recover the lost health. The diseases that occurred abroad were those of the gastrointestinal tract (chronic pancreatitis and chronic cholecystitis that garnered 13.72% and 12.59%, respectively). Most of the migrants (53.1%) deny the presence of chronic diseases before going abroad what indirectly proves that for the first time migrants left the country being able to work.