Ververidou Faye, Hervey Tamara
Former PhD candidate at the University of Sheffield and a part-time lecturer and research associate at South-East European Research Centre, City College, University of York Europe Campus, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Health Hum Rights. 2024 Dec;26(2):91-104.
Deploying legal analysis and a small-scale qualitative dataset, this paper considers the right to health of asylum seekers, as a subgroup of distress migrants, in Greece in the years preceding the COVID-19 pandemic and thereafter. The public health care system in Greece is operating under significant constraints stemming from austerity policies. We analyze the legal entitlements of asylum seekers as found in Greek and international law and confirm a significant gap between the right to health in theory and the right to health in practice. While some administrative matters have improved, in general, widespread human rights failures to provide the right to health for vulnerable asylum seekers arriving in Greece continue. In particular, shortcomings in the health care system's capacity and structure, as well as poor arrangements to secure the underlying conditions for good health, affect the practical realization of the right to health of asylum seekers, many of whom have complex health needs.
本文运用法律分析和小规模定性数据集，探讨了在新冠疫情之前及之后的几年里，希腊寻求庇护者（作为困境移民的一个子群体）的健康权问题。希腊的公共医疗体系在紧缩政策带来的巨大限制下运行。我们分析了希腊法律和国际法中寻求庇护者的法定权利，并证实了健康权在理论与实践之间存在显著差距。虽然一些行政事务有所改善，但总体而言，在为抵达希腊的弱势寻求庇护者提供健康权方面，普遍存在人权缺失的情况仍在继续。特别是，医疗体系在能力和结构方面的不足，以及在保障健康基本条件方面的糟糕安排，影响了寻求庇护者健康权的实际实现，其中许多人有着复杂的健康需求。
