The Construction of a Health Uninsurant: People without Medical Citizenship as Seen by Some Slovene Health Workers
The Construction of a Health Uninsurant: People without Medical Citizenship as Seen by Some Slovene Health Workers
Author(s): Uršula Lipovec ČebronSubject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Health and medicine and law, Migration Studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Keywords: health care; migrants; access to medical institutions; health workers; medical citizenship; Slovenia;
Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with medical aspects of migration by first focusing on legal, economic and socio-cultural factors that threaten migrants’ health and by then identifying how these factors affect access to medical facilities. Using the case of Slovenia, I will prove that, despite apparently formally regulated access to health services, migrants often remain without health care or without medical citizenship. Because of the frequent inability of migrants to access their formally guaranteed rights, it is crucial to assess how they are perceived by health workers - the second part of the article therefore analyses some of their responses.
Journal: Studia ethnologica Croatica
- Issue Year: 2010
- Issue No: 22
- Page Range: 187-212
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English