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The Conversation: Moving for work — the hidden health impacts of SA’s urban migration
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Migration can improve livelihoods without uniformly harming health, researchers find, but urban diets, obesity and blood pressure risks highlight the need for mobile healthcare planning.
- Migration can improve livelihoods without uniformly harming health, researchers find, but urban diets, obesity and blood pressure risks highlight the need for mobile healthcare planning.
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- The Conversation: Moving for work — the hidden health impacts of SA’s urban migration
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- Left: Migration can improve livelihoods without uniformly harming health, researchers find, but urban diets, obesity and blood pressure risks highlight the need for mobile healthcare planning.
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