The right of immigrants to healthcare
Section: Ethics and Society
How to quote
Limia Redondo S, Alonso Blanco C, Salvadores Fuentes P. Derecho de los inmigrantes a la asistencia sanitaria. Metas de Enferm mar 2005; 8(2): 68-72
Authors
Susana Limia Redondo, Cristina Alonso Blanco, Paloma Salvadores Fuentes
Position
Profesoras de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Alcorcón, Madrid.
Contact address
Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud. 28922 Alarcón, Madrid.
Contact email: slimia@cs.urjc.es
Abstract
The paper presents a review of the laws governing immigration in our country from the the time the first regulation in relation to this subject entered into effect in 1994 -the so called "Immigration Law for Aliens"- which was rather simple in its contents, to the "Organic Law on Rights and Freedom of the Immigrants in Spain and their social integration", published in January 2000, as well as the Deontological Code of Nursing in Spain.
The aim of this paper is to attempt to ascertain the type of healthcare type that these immigrants have the right to receive, whether their rights should be the same as those immigrants who are legally living in Spain, and what the Deontological Nursing Code with regards to immigrant patients establishes in relation to immigrant patients.
Keywords:
Immigration; right to health protection; legislationnursing
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