Why don't health care frontline professionals do more for segregated Roma? Exploring mechanisms supporting unequal care practices

Andrej Belak, Daniela Filakovska Bobakova, Andrea Madarasova Geckova, Jitse P. van Dijk and Sijmen A. Reijneveld

Social Science & Medicine, 2020, vol. 246, issue C

Abstract: Unequal provision of health care contributes to the poor health status of segregated Roma in Central and Eastern Europe. Studies on the drivers and mechanisms behind this are lacking.

Keywords: Slovakia; Roma health; Health inequalities; Health services; Discrimination; Racism; Qualitative research; Ethnography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112739

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