The legal status of seriously ill foreigners in France and Portugal

Authors

  • Daniel Senovilla Hernández Juriste à Médecins sans Frontières. Mission France.

Abstract

The present paper aims to compare french and spanish legislations relating to the regulations foreigners access to public health care, with particular reference to the way in which both legislations give especific protection in critical situations of serious illness. In connection with this circunstance of serious illness and from and a comparative perspective, the different practical outcomes of a protection «in full right» and a «discretionary» protection are the most outstanding features. Because the subject matter dealt with —i.e. immigrants’ health— is of interest to the different professionals on this sector of activity and with the precision that this document of legal analysis has been made an effort to use non-technical languaje whenever possible so that it can be easily read by anyone interested who not have legal training.

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Senovilla Hernández, D. (2016). The legal status of seriously ill foreigners in France and Portugal. Migraciones. Publicación Del Instituto Universitario De Estudios Sobre Migraciones, (9), 105–170. Retrieved from https://revistas.comillas.edu/index.php/revistamigraciones/article/view/4389

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Estudios