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Migrants and healthcare within the European Union
Migrants and healthcare within the European Union

Author(s): Raluca Nagy
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: POLIROM & Universitatea Bucureşti - Dept. de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială
Keywords: healthcare; migration; infectious diseases; access; Europe

Summary/Abstract: The investigation of migration can help us understand how the types of migration interact with each other as well as with the various local/national ‘immobilities’. Migrants pose special challenges to healthcare systems, in their origin as well as destination countries. Available data on this topic, following EU interests and policies, focuses on health problems of vulnerable migrant groups, often directed exclusively to issues that can affect the local population. This paper aims to set some explanatory contexts when it

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 61-72
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English