Being a patient among other patients: Refugees' political inclusion through the Austrian solidarity‐based healthcare system.
This paper is an empirical study of what solidarity in a Western European healthcare system means today. Drawing upon empirical research on the 2015 refugee cohort's health needs and their health‐seeking behaviour, it unites claims from the literature on solidarity in the fields of migration and hea...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 120 - 130 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2023
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