Migration and the human right to health

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 70-77

  Cole, Phillip ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHICS; FEE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; MORALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ABANDONMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

CANADA; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEES AND CHARGES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; REFUSAL TO TREAT; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 58749109206     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: 14692147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180108090117     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Failed asylum seekers in Wales and Scotland do not fall under this exclusion, and the situation in England is unclear at the time of writing, after a High Court ruling that regulations banning failed asylum seekers from free NHS treatment were unlawful. The government is in the process of appealing against the ruling. All other irregular/ undocumented migrants are excluded throughout the United Kingdom.
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4. Select Committee on Health. Third Report; 2005:paragraph 94. Available from www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200405/cmselect/cmhealth/252/ 25202.htm (retrieved 2008 Jul 10).
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7. See note 4, Select Committee on Health, 2005:paragraph 111.
8. See note 4, Select Committee on Health, 2005:paragraph 128.
9. See note 4, Select Committee on Health, 2005:paragraph 139.
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15. For the full version of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, see www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/ b/a-cescr.htm (retrieved 2008 Jul 10). For other international codes in this area see International Organization for Migration. World Migration 2005: Costs and Benefits of International Migration, Vol 3 - IOM Migration Report Series; 2005:330.
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18. I am interpreting "justiciability" here to mean that "only a court of law . . . is competent to review complaints about violations of a right and to give redress." Toebes BCA. The Right to Health as a Human Right in International Law. Antwerp: Intersentia-Hart; 1999:168. Toebes in fact thinks this is too narrow an interpretation.
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21. See note 19, Friesen 2001:213.
22. See note 19, Friesen 2001:213.
23. See note 19, Friesen 2001:218.
24. See note 19, Friesen 2001:218.
25. See note 19, Friesen 2001:219.
26. See note 19, Friesen 2001:220.
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28. See note 27. Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants 2007:104.
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30. See note 19, Friesen 2001:221-2.