Health and access to care for undocumented migrants living in the European Union: A scoping review

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 818-830

  Woodward, Aniek ^a,b   Howard, Natasha ^a   Wolffers, Ivan ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Access to care; European Union; Health; Review; Undocumented migrants

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MIGRATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EUROPEAN UNION; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84986907106     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czt061     Document Type: Review

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