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Plain-language summary of research published in the Georgian Medical Journal. Written for the general public by the GMJ News editorial team.
Migration is one of the defining structural forces shaping global health in the 21st century — yet few journals in the wider region offer it a sustained editorial home. With this issue, the Georgian Medical Journal launches Health and Migration (GMH): a permanent section, not a one-off feature.
Why a Permanent Section, Not a Special Issue
The editorial is explicit about the distinction: GMH is framed as a long-term editorial commitment, publishing original research, systematic and scoping reviews, policy analyses, comparative country studies, methodological papers, and data-driven tools and indices — an ongoing publishing infrastructure rather than a single themed collection that runs once and disappears.
What GMH Will Prioritise
Named priority areas include health entitlement and access, migration as a determinant of health system performance, cross-border continuity of care, health-workforce mobility, humanitarian health, and digital health for mobile populations — a deliberately broad scope spanning clinical, policy, and systems research rather than one narrow lane.
At a glance — the headline figures.
The current issue introduces two foundational contributions establishing the conceptual and analytical groundwork GMH will build on going forward — meaning this launch editorial is best read alongside the substantive migration-and-health research it accompanies, rather than as a standalone announcement.
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Read the Original Research
Original article: GMJ Launches a Permanent Health & Migration Platform
Published in: Georgian Medical Journal, Vol. 1 No. 2 (2026)
DOI: 10.66636/gmj.v1.i2.a123
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Georgian Medical Journal (GMJ) · ISSN 3088-4322 · gmj.ge · Open Access CC BY 4.0 · Published by the Public Health Institute of Georgia (PHIG). This summary is an independent editorial product of GMJ News; for clinical decisions, consult the original peer-reviewed article and a qualified professional.
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