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Emerging Themes in Epidemiology BioMed Central Review Open Access The basic principles of migration health: Population mobility and gaps in disease prevalence 1 1,2 Brian D Gushulak and Douglas W MacPherson* Address: 1Migration Health Consultants, Inc., Vienna, Austria/Cheltenham, Ontario, Canada and 2Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Email: Brian D Gushulak - Brian.Gushulak@aon.at; Douglas W MacPherson* - douglaswmacpherson@ * Corresponding author Published: 04 May 2006 Received: 27 September 2005 Accepted: 04 May 2006 Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2006, 3:3 doi:10.1186/1742-7622-3-3 This article is available from: /content/3/1/3 © 2006 Gushulak and MacPherson; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Currently, migrants and other mobile individuals, such as migrant workers and asylum seekers, are an expanding global population of growing social, demographic and political importance. Disparities often exist between a migrant populations place of origin and its destination, particularly with relation to health determinants. The effects of those disparities can be observed at both individual