HealthcareCosta RicaNicaraguaCentral AmericaAs in most immigrant-receiving countries in the global North, countries in the South face challenges regarding migrant access to social rights and the effect of migrants on the sustainability of the welfare state. In the Latin American context, this holds ...
Most European states commit to ensure equitable access to health services and to thus contribute to health equity and the fulfillment of the right to health [1]. However, migrants continue to face persistent inequalities in access to healthcare across European countries [2]. While these inequalitie...
An analysis of migrant healthcare policies would therefore allow us to determine how they are affecting or may affect access to care and thus to reorient them in order to reduce inequalities in access and move toward a more equitable healthcare system. Analyses of migrant health policies have ...
Literature has identified different barriers in access to healthcare for migrants, but none explains why some migrants have similar access to healthcare as the local population when others do not. The ecological approach can be used to conceptualize migrants' access to healthcare as a complex pheno...
Older migrants’ access to healthcare: a thematic synthesisOlder migrants’ access to healthcare: a thematic synthesisThematic synthesisOlder migrantsBarriersAccessHealthcarePurposeThe purpose of this paper is to synthesise data from the existent literature on the experiences of non-western older migrants...
Over the years, challenges surrounding access to healthcare by Chinese migrant workers have surfaced globally. This study aims to explore the experiences of Chinese migrants accessing primary and secondary/ tertiary healthcare in Singapore, and the opportunities for overcoming these barriers. Methods: ...
“Our interviews revealed that many migrants spend protracted periods in detention facilities, a quarter of respondents had spent more than a year locked up, with limited access to healthcare and basic needs. This is a real problem, both from a medical and human rights perspective.” ...
Equal and universal access to healthcare services is a core priority for a just health system. A key societal determinant seen to create inequality in access to healthcare is corruption in the healthcare system. How return migrants' access to healthcare is affected by corruption is largely unstu...
on a study from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) which found that providing migrants with timely access to health screening and treatment would be cost saving in countries such as Germany, Greece and Sweden, in comparison with the waiting until they need emergency care. The...
Europe must guarantee migrants better access to health care, the World Health Organization urged Monday in its first report on the health of new arrivals to the old continent, where accessibility varies broadly. "The most important is the access to health services. To improve their health, it i...