Gestor bibliográfico Crisis y Salud

In 2006 and 2008, the Doctors of the World European Observatory16 on access to healthcare conducted two surveys that specifically looked at the condition of undocumented migrants in Europe.17,18 These past surveys were based on samples of MdM patients in various European countries. Three years later, in 2012, the Observatory has presented data on the living conditions of all of the patients, including undocumented migrants, seen in 2011 at MdM free clinics in 5 European cities: Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Munich, and Nice19. It was then the first analysis ever made by the Observatory that was based on information on living conditions and health data collected routinely (and not only among subsamples of patients) in our clinics. One year later, we are pleased to present in this document the analysis and main results observed on data collected in 14 cities located in 7 European countries: Brussels and Antwerp in Belgium, Nice in France, Munich in Germany, Athens, Perama, Patras and Thessaloniki in Greece, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Alicante, Tenerife, Valencia and Zaragoza in Spain, and London in the United Kingdom.20 Progressively, the coverage of such a routine collection of social and medical data among the vulnerable people who are consulting MdM in our clinics all over Europe has been increasing, and so is the quantitative value of our results and the scope of the testimony of this Observatory.