Table 4.

Health policy issues resulting from international population mobility

• National point-of-arrival activities – for example, immigration medical screening programs for specific targeted disease at the airport – will become less effective, more costly, and increasingly irrelevant • International intervention programs for specific diseases at the migrants' country of origin may be more effective than national intervention programs dealing with low incidence diseases • Mobility will become a more important determination factor influencing many health outcomes, along with age, sex, genetics, biology, behaviour and educational and wealth attainment • Mobile population health policy frameworks will increasingly require integration and harmonisation at all jurisdictional levels with international economic, trade and security approaches