The EUGATE Project - Legislation and Policies database

The EUGATE Project investigates best practice in health services for immigrants in Europe. Within EUGATE, Laziosanità ASP leads Work Package 5, whose duties concern the mapping and assessment of legislations, policies, and funding arrangements across the participating Countries. Its main objectives were:

1. 1. To map and assess legislation and policies in each country.
2. To map and assess funding arrangements in each country.
3. To contribute to a better understanding of the diversity in health services in Europe by providing a compendium on legislations, policies, and funding arrangements.
4. To establish a framework for future continuation of such documentation within and across countries.
5. To contribute to an understanding of the contextual variation within and between good practices in relation to legislations, policies and funding arrangements.
   

For these purposes, a specific questionnaire was created with the purpose of listing and reporting on national legislation and policies that are in effect in each country, regulating health care for immigrants either as a whole or as one or more of the following specific groups: 1) regular immigrants, 2) irregular immigrants, 3) asylum seekers, 4) refugees, and 5) victims of human being trafficking. Where possible, legal provisions regulating health care for immigrants were considered among the three mainstreams identified in the project: primary care, emergency care, chronic care.

On this page you may search the EUGATE Legislation and Policies database through a series of structured queries:

- EU DIRECTIVES - Starting from a defined EC Directive, you may visualize the main issues being dealt with in the directive and the specific legislation of adoption  for each participating Country.

- SECTIONS - Selecting a section, you may see the characteristics of healthcare provision in each participating Country.

- ANNEXES - Selecting one of the 16 participating countries, you may visualize all relevant documents and informations related to one or more section, depending on year of publication and type of document (Legislation/Policy). You may also visualize the date on which the questionnaire was completed, and which were the sources of information used.

For any question/comment/suggestion regarding this database, please contact Dr. Andrea Gaddini - gaddini@asplazio.it

This publication arises from the project "EUGATE - Best Practice in Health Services for Immigrants in Europe”, which has received funding from the European Union, in the framework of the Public Health Programme.