Healthcare access for children and families on the move and migrants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The United Kingdom (UK) National Health Service (NHS) charging regulations have increasingly restricted migrants' healthcare access, in the context of a wider national policy shift over the past few years intending to create a 'hostile environment' for migrants. With an estimated 144 000 undocumented children living in the UK and increasing public concern that these regulations are negatively impacting migrant health and well-being, as well as contravening international child rights agreements, it has become imperative to understand their implications.

Methods

A mixed methods digital survey, covering attitudes towards and understanding of UK healthcare charging, and giving space for relevant case submission, was disseminated through communications channels of the

SUBMITTER: Murphy L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7213513 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature