Migrant health guide
Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients for healthcare practitioners.
Countries A to Z
Find country-specific information relevant to migrant health on the Countries A to Z page of the migrant health guide.
Access to healthcare
Assessing and treating patients
- Assessing new patients from overseas: migrant health guide
- Language interpreting and translation: migrant health guide
- Culture, spirituality and religion: migrant health guide
- Travel to visit friends and relatives: migrant health guide
- Women's health: migrant health guide
- Children's health: migrant health guide
Vulnerable migrant groups
Communicable diseases
For any conditions not listed here, see the UK Government National Archives for a copy of the communicable diseases list.
- Chagas disease: migrant health guide
- Childhood infections: migrant health guide
- Enteric fevers: migrant health guide
- Helminth infections: migrant health guide
- Hepatitis B: migrant health guide
- Hepatitis C: migrant health guide
- HIV: migrant health guide
- Malaria: migrant health guide
- Poliomyelitis and post-polio syndrome: migrant health guide
- Sexually transmitted infections (STIs): migrant health guide
- Tuberculosis (TB): migrant health guide
Outbreak management
Non-communicable diseases
Nutrition
Last updated 7 February 2023 + show all updates
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Added a link to 'Outbreak management in short term asylum seeker accommodation' to the outbreak management section.
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Link to Roma health guidance has been added to Vulnerable migrant groups section
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Temporarily removing information on the National Asylum Seekers Health Steering Group to correct formatting.
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Creation of new page for the National Asylum Seekers Health Steering Group.
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Added new 'Social prescribing: migrant health guide'.
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First published.