Providing medical care for undocumented migrants in Denmark: what are the challenges for health professionals?
- Document number
- 2836
- Date
- 2011
- Title
- Providing medical care for undocumented migrants in Denmark: what are the challenges for health professionals?
- Author/publisher
- Danish Research Centre for Migration, Queen Mary University of London
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- restrictive migration measures, healthcare, undocumented migrants,
- Summary
- Researchers at the Danish Research Centre for Migration and Queen Mary University of London published in June 2011 a study entitled "Providing medical care for undocumented migrants in Denmark: what are the challenges for health professionals?". The study focuses on how health professionals in Denmark provide care to undocumented migrants and the barriers that they face in providing treatment. Interviews were conducted with general practitioners and emergency room physicians. Results from the study showed problems faced by general practitioners regarding the financial aspects in terms of the expenses not being covered by the patient, concerns about how to handle further referrals and uncertainty as to whether to involve the police. The study concludes that based on findings undocumented migrants experience an unequal access to primary care facilities and uncertainty among health professionals in how to respond thus highlighting the need to develop an official policy manual providing guidelines on the delivery of health care to undocumented migrants.
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