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The International Organisation on Migration (IOM) has released a paper entitled “Ensuring the Right of Migrant Children to Health Care: The Response of Hospitals and Health Services”. The paper addresses hospitals’ and healthcare services’ response to ensuring the right of migrant children to healthcare in relation to the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the holistic concept of health. Providing examples of good practices by hospitals and health services in Europe in relation to challenges posed to the community, hospital management and health professionals, the paper offers case studies from Ireland, Sweden, Italy and Spain.

 

 

Ethnic-minority health is a public health priority in Europe. This study compares strategies for tackling ethnic inequalities in health from two countries, Scotland and Belgium, in which we analysed the recognition of the problem, the policies and the services and described ethnic health inequalities. Scotland has provided a more advanced and comprehensive response to tackling ethnic inequalities in health than Belgium. It has acknowledged that discrimination exists and that ethnic minority groups may have different needs. Belgium still assumes non-discrimination in health care and effectively denies the need for policy to tailor services to meet these needs. In Scotland, public organizations have been made accountable for promoting equality in health.

 

 

This is the final report of the DEVAS project, coordinated by JRS. The objective of the DEVAS project was to investigate and analyse vulnerability in detained asylum seekers and irregular migrants: both the way in which pre-existing vulnerable groups cope with detention, and the way in which detention can enable vulnerability in persons who do not otherwise possess officially recognised vulnerabilities and special needs. The report contains namely detailed data on physical and mental health in detention centres and ends with recommendations for Member State policymaking on the detention of irregular migrants for the purpose of removal as well as with recommendations for Member State and EU policymaking for the detention of asylum seekers.

 

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