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Migrants’ right to healthcare: accepting limits on what European healthcare systems can provide (letters)

David Hughes

British Medical Journal, Volume: 353, Issue: 8058, Pages: 2679 - 2679

Swansea University Author: David Hughes

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DOI (Published version): 10.1136/bmj.i2679

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This is a response to Dr JM Clarke's article calling for governments to stop denying a right to free healthcare to migrants entering the European Union. It discusses the economic and logistical constraints confronting European healthcare systems, and argues that certain limits will have to be a...

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Published: 2016
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