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To establish a dedicated editorial section for exploring the intersection of migration and health systems.

May 14, 2026Open Access

Health and Migration at the Georgian Medical Journal: Launching a Programmatic Platform for Evidence, Policy, and Dialogue

Key Points

To establish a dedicated editorial section for exploring the intersection of migration and health systems.
Introduced a permanent section in the Georgian Medical Journal focused on migration and health.
Planned to publish a variety of content including original research, reviews, and policy analyses.
Prioritized topics such as health access, workforce mobility, and digital health for migrants.
Set the foundation for future issues with two key contributions on health and migration.
Highlighted priority areas for subsequent publications, including cross-border care and humanitarian health.

Abstract

Background Migration is one of the structural forces shaping global health in the 21st century, yet few journals in the wider region offer a sustained editorial home for work at the intersection of human mobility and health systems. Purpose With this issue, the Georgian Medical Journal (GMJ) launches Health and Migration (GMH) — a permanent editorial section dedicated to evidence, policy analysis, and interdisciplinary dialogue on migration and health. Scope GMH will publish original research, systematic and scoping reviews, policy analyses, comparative country studies, methodological papers, and data-driven tools and indices. Priority areas include health entitlement and access, migration as a determinant of system performance, cross-border continuity of care, health-workforce mobility, humanitarian health, and digital health for mobile populations. Conclusion GMH is a long-term editorial commitment, not a single-issue feature. The current issue introduces two foundational contributions, establishing the conceptual and analytical foundation on which subsequent issues will build. Keywords health and migration; refugee health; health systems; health entitlement; cross-border care; health workforce mobility; humanitarian health; digital health; Georgian Medical Journal

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