Emigracja zarobkowa w kontekście zdrowia i choroby. Nowy obszar teoretycznych i badawczych dociekań socjologii medycyny

Abstract

The article consists of three parts. First part includes analyses concerning problems in medical sociology and applied/used scientific approaches. Second part of the text examines the condition of migrants’ health. It has been based on the researches of both Polish and foreign scientists in the field. Third part includes the results of the author’s own research and an attempt to review strong and weak sides of both: the study of health risk factors in the context of migration, the analysis of migrants’ health condition with the use of qualitative data provided in a free-form interview, as well as, a question of future prospect of creating a model for migrants’ health analysis.