title: Injury and Mortality in Young Nepalese Migrant Workers: A Call for Public Health Action.
abstract: Approximately 3.5 million Nepalese are working as migrant workers in the Gulf countries, Malaysia, and India. Every year there are more than 1000 deaths and many hundreds cases of injuries among Nepalese workers in these countries excluding India. A postmortem examination of migrant workers is not carried out in most of these countries, and those with work-related injuries are often sent back to home. Uninsured migrant workers also do not have easy access to health care services in host countries due to the high medical and hospital fees. Greater efforts are needed to protect the health and well-being, labor rights, and human rights of migrant workers from Nepal and other South-Asian nations. There is a need to enforce universal labor laws in these countries and to develop accurate records of mortality and morbidity and their causes.
authors.affiliation: University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand nirmal.aryal@otago.ac.nz.
authors.forename: Nirmal
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Aryal
authors.affiliation: Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK.|Chitwan Medical College, Tribhuvan University, Chitwan, Nepal.
authors.forename: Pramod R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Regmi
authors.affiliation: Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK.|Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.|Nobel College, Pokhara University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
authors.forename: Edwin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: van Teijlingen
authors.affiliation: Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.|Nobel College, Pokhara University, Kathmandu, Nepal.|Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.
authors.forename: Padam
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Simkhada
authors.affiliation: Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK.
authors.forename: Pratik
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Adhikary
authors.affiliation: Norvic International Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal.
authors.forename: Yadav Kumar Deo
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Bhatta
authors.affiliation: University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Stewart
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mann
mesh_terms: D004651:Employment / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008296:Malaysia / Q000453:epidemiology; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D009390:Nepal / Q000208:ethnology; D060051:Occupational Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality*; D011634:Public Health; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: global health; health care services; inequalities in health; population health; work place safety