Health risks are among the most severe risks confronting poor households in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in areas where affordable and good quality health care is scarce and access to health insurance is limited. Individuals may travel far distances or even move to other places in order to seek treatment, to escape from infectious diseases or to help their families overcome financial hardship resulting from high medical expenditures and loss of income due to illness. Such relationships between health risks and migration are rarely explicitly studied despite their important consequences for the planning, targeting and effectiveness of health policies. Our research investigates the role of migration in dealing with the risks of chronic and acute illnesses, injuries, hospitalizations and communicable diseases that may not only affect the health of people but also their economic situation.