Protocol for identification and for age assessment of unaccompanied minors

Background The national technical board, established in 2008 on request of the Marche Region Health Department, is coordinated by the Observatory on Health Inequalities and composed of members of Regional Health Departments, Health Ministry technicians and experts from the Italian Society of Medicine of Migrations; it guarantees a constant dialogue and cooperation between the Regions and the national level about issues and policies for immigrant’s health care. Its aim is to encourage policy makers to fight immigrants’ health inequalities and to achieve geographical uniformity and fairness in the access to health care by the immigrants.