Fact 4: Access to health care

Refugees and migrants can face challenges in accessing health care, such as legal status, language barriers and lack of resources.

Access to health-care services varies greatly across the WHO European Region and within the national boundaries of Member States. Barriers faced by refugees and migrants in accessing health-care services include:

• limited access due to legal status;
• a shortage of interpreters and cultural mediators;
• uncertainties about how to register in health systems;
• a lack of resources; and
• a lack of legal support services.

Read further Report on the health of refugees and migrants in the WHO European Region: no public health without refugee and migrant health (2018)

These 10 facts summarize key issues on refugee and migrant health in the WHO European Region.