Coping with legal restrictions of access to mental health care for irregular migrants in Europe – results from the PROMO Study
C Straßmayr, H Katschnig, S Priebe, A Matanov · Psychiatrische Praxis · 2011 · Heft 04
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Zusammenfassung
Background/Objectives: For irregular migrants’ legal entitlement to mental health care (as part of health care in general) is regulated differently in different member states of the European Union. Some countries restrict their health obligations towards irregular migrants to „emergency health care“, others provide partial or full access to health care. The present study analyses actual practices of access to mental health care for irregular migrants against the background of general legal regulations of health care. Only recently access to health care and health care provision for irregular migrants has been a…