LHSS Promising Practices: Integrating and Including Migrants in National Health Systems

With increased migration around the world posing unique challenges and opportunities for health systems, efforts to better integrate and include migrants and host communities in national health systems are an integral part of the global health equity agenda. The growing effects of climate change, conflict, and other international crises suggest that the phenomenon of migration, and the need to achieve health equity for mobile populations, will only increase in importance in the coming years.

The first in our Promising Practices Series, this brief examines promising practices to strengthen systems for the integration and inclusion of international migrants in national health systems. While these practices were largely generated in Latin American countries where many Venezuelan migrants reside long-term or permanently, they have the potential to be relevant and adaptable in other high-migration settings.