Medical Xenophobia and Zimbabwean Migrant Access to Public Health Services in South Africa
Medical Xenophobia and Zimbabwean Migrant Access to Public Health Services in South Africa
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DOI：
10.1080/1369183x.2013.830504
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发表时间：
2014-04-03
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Tawodzera, Godfrey
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作者：
Crush, Jonathan;Tawodzera, Godfrey
仇外态度和行动在南非的民间社会和国家中普遍存在。医疗仇外心理是指保健专业人员和雇员仅仅因为移民和难民的非南非身份而对他们采取的消极态度和做法。本文基于对试图进入该系统的津巴布韦移民的初步研究，研究了仇外心理在向公民和非公民提供卫生服务的公共机构中表现出来的程度。该论文认为，医疗仇外心理在南非公共卫生系统中根深蒂固，尽管它从根本上违反了该国的《宪法》和《权利法案》、国际人权义务以及管理患者治疗的职业道德规范的存在。
Xenophobic attitudes and actions are all-pervasive in South Africa in civil society and the state. Medical xenophobia refers to the negative attitudes and practices of health professionals and employees towards migrants and refugees based purely on their identity as non-South African. This paper examines the extent to which xenophobia manifests itself within the public institutions that offer health services to citizens and non-citizens, based on primary research with Zimbabwean migrants who try to access the system. The paper argues that medical xenophobia is deeply entrenched in the South African public health system despite being a fundamental breach of the country's Constitution and Bill of Rights, international human rights obligations and the existence of professional codes of ethics governing the treatment of patients.