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Risk of mental health and nutritional problems for left-behind children of international labor migrants

BACKGROUND: One-in-ten Sri Lankans are employed abroad as International Labor Migrants (ILM), mainly as domestic maids or low-skilled laborers. Little is known about the impact their migration has on the health status of the children they ‘leave behind’. This national study explored associations bet...

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Autores principales:	Wickramage, Kolitha, Siriwardhana, Chesmal, Vidanapathirana, Puwalani, Weerawarna, Sulochana, Jayasekara, Buddhini, Pannala, Gayani, Adikari, Anushka, Jayaweera, Kaushalya, Peiris, Sharika, Siribaddana, Sisira, Sumathipala, Athula
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2015
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372303/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25884926 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-015-0412-2

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