VOA慢速英语:Returning Migrants Often Bring Their Health Problems Home With Them

Everyone knows life for refugees and migrant workers can be difficult, dangerous and even deadly. But what happens when they return home? One of the biggest problems for migrants is getting health care as they travel and live in a new place. As a result, they often bring their medical problems home with them.
大家都知道难民和移民工人的生活很艰难，非常危险，甚至是致命的。可是,当他们返回自己的家园的时候将会遇到什么？移民工人面临的其中一个最大的问题就是到达新的地方的时候难以获得医疗保障。因此，他们往往都会将健康问题带回家。

A new report looks at this situation. The report is from specialists at the International Organization for Migration in Geneva, Switzerland.
一份新的报告研究了这种情况。该报告来自瑞士日内瓦国际移民组织的专家。

One of those authors was Haley West. She says migrant workers who get injured on the job may not be able to get treatment in the country where they are working. That lack of access to medical care means they have to deal with medical problems when they rejoin their family.
这份报告的其中一位作者是Haley West。她说，在工作过程中受伤的移民工人在他工作的国家可能难以得到治疗。缺乏医疗保健意味着他们必须回到家园之后才能处理健康问题。

HALEY WEST: "So when they return back home, they've got an occupational health issue that wasn't addressed in the country where they were working. And now, the diagnosis has probably been delayed. So that delay in diagnosis oftentimes leads to worse health issues that could have potentially been preventable if they had been given the access in the country in which they were working."
Haley West：“所以，当他们回到家的时候，他们可能患上在工作的国家没有进行治疗的职业病。而现在，诊断可能已经被耽误。诊断的耽误通常会导致更加严重的健康问题。如果他们能在工作的国家就进行治疗的话，这种情况原本是可以避免的。”

Not all migrants travel for economic reasons. Many are forced from home by natural disaster, war or civil unrest. And not all health care needs are physical. Another author of the report, Rosilyne Borland, says people who have lived through that kind of situation may have psychological injuries.
并非所有的移民外出都是由于经济原因。许多人背井离乡是由于自然灾害，战争或者国内动荡。而且并不是所有的健康问题都是身体方面的。该报告的另外一名作者Rosilyne Borland表示，生活在这种环境下的人可能会遭受精神创伤。

ROSILYNE BORLAND: "There's been some very interesting studies done on people who have been granted refugee status and the sorts of mental health challenges they face years down the road. So someone returning from mass displacement, even though I'm sure [they] are thrilled to be going home, they bring with them all sorts of challenges upon their return."
Rosilyne Borland：“有人对被赋予难民身份的人以及他们今后几年面临的精神健康方面的挑战进行了有趣的研究。当有人从大规模的难民营回家的时候，尽管我确信他们为能够回家感到激动，但是他们回家时也面临着各种各样的挑战。”

Another problem for returning migrants is that they may not have much to return to.
移民归国也面临着另外一个问题，就是他们可能也无家可归。

ROSILYNE BORLAND: "If the community was destroyed by the natural disaster or the war, then the health system has also been damaged, and the ability of that community to continue to keep people healthy is also challenged when they get back."
Rosilyne Borland：“如果他们的家园被自然灾害或战争毁坏，那么当地的医疗保健系统肯定也受到损坏，这个社区继续暴涨人们健康的能力也受到了挑战。”

Rosilyne Borland, Haley West and the other authors of the article have some suggestions. They call for policies to consider the needs of returning migrants and to make sure they can receive health testing.
Rosilyne Borland, Haley West和这篇文章的其他作者有一些建议。他们呼吁政策考虑返回家园的移民的需求，并确保他们能够接受健康检查。

The report appeared in a six-part series on migration and health in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS Medicine. The journal editors say, "If internal and international migrants comprised a nation, it would be the third most populous country in the world, just after China and India."
该报告发表在《公共科学图书馆．医学》(PLoS Medicine)期刊关于移民和健康的分为六部分的系列报道中。该期刊的编辑称，“如果将国内外的移民组成一个国家，它的人口总数将排在世界第三位，仅次于中国和印度。”

The editors say population mobility is among the leading policy issues of the twenty-first century. They say officials have not given enough attention to policies to protect migrants and global health. And the efforts have been made more difficult by a lack of coordination between countries.
编辑们称，人口的流动已经成为21世纪主要的政策问题。他们说，官员们对于保护移民和全球卫生的政策没有给予足够的重视。由于国家之间缺乏协调合作，使得工作更加困难。