Euro Observer, Winter 2007, Vol.9, No.4
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Little is known about access to health care among the 35 to 40 million foreign-born people in Europe. Indeed, the European Commission has found that “While Member States identify immigrants among those particularly at risk of poverty and social exclusion, many countries still fail to provide in-depth analysis of the factors leading to this situation. Little attention is given to promoting access to resources, rights, goods and services, in particular to appropriate healthcare.”1
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