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Review
. 2024 May 28:41:100804.
doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2023.100804. eCollection 2024 Jun.

Priority setting and migration health policies for European countries

Bernadette N Kumar  1 , Anand Bhopal  2   3 , Karl Blanchet  4 , Kolitha Wickramage  5 , Kristine Husøy Onarheim  2
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Review

Priority setting and migration health policies for European countries

Bernadette N Kumar et al. Lancet Reg Health Eur. .

Abstract

The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda has committed to 'ensuring that no one is left behind'. Applying the right to health of non-citizens and international migrants is challenging in today's highly polarized political discourse on migration governance and integration. We explore the role of a priority setting approach to help support better, fairer and more transparent policy making in migration health. A priority setting approach must also incorporate migration health for more efficient and fair allocation of scarce resources. Explicitly recognizing the trade-offs as part of strategic planning, would circumvent ad hoc decision-making during crises, not well-suited for fairness. Discussions surrounding decisions about expanding services to migrants or subgroups of migrants, which services and to whom should be transparent and fair. We conclude that a priority setting approach can help better inform policy making by being more closely aligned with the practical challenges policy makers face towards the progressive realization of migration health.

Keywords: Fairness; Health policy; Migration and health; Priority setting.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no competing interests.

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Three dimensions of Universal Health Coverage.
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The progressive realisation of migration health.
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Comment in

  • How to address migrant health inequity in Europe.
    The Lancet Regional Health-Europe. The Lancet Regional Health-Europe. Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2024 May 28;41:100939. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.100939. eCollection 2024 Jun. Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2024. PMID: 39120098 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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