Refugee crisis in Finland: Challenges to safeguarding the right to health for asylum seekers

Karolina Tuomisto, Paula Tiittala, Ilmo Keskimäki and Otto Helve

Health Policy, 2019, vol. 123, issue 9, 825-832

Abstract: In 2015 Finland received an unprecedented number of asylum seekers, ten times more than in any previous year. This surge took place at a time the Finnish Government was busily undergoing a wide-range health and social care reform amid growing nationalist and populist sentiments. Our aim is to explore the governance of a parallel health system for asylum seekers with a right-to-health approach.

Keywords: Refugees; Finland; Public Health; Government; Delivery of Health Care; Health Services; Policy; Human rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2019.07.014

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