Health care provision for illegal immigrants: should public health be concerned?
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Health care provision for illegal immigrants: should public health be concerned?
European countries are becoming multicultural societies, and national health systems have progressively adapted following their political and historical peculiarities. Overall, sick, immigrants with regularised administrative status are able to use health services in equal terms than people from the host country. Legal immigrants have a poorer health status and worse living conditions than the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.54.6.478