Health systems and inequality: the case of migrants in Europe

The Ph.D. thesis is titled “Health systems and inequality: the case of migrants in Europe”. It is a quantitative study of the health discrimination suffered by migrants in Europe, measured by inequality of opportunities and unmet needs (EU-SILC dataset, years 2007-2013). The thesis is composed by four chapters and the candidate has benefitted from a visiting period spent by the Candidate at the Agència de Salut Pùblica de Barcelona (Spain). As a result of this visiting period, the candidate worked on 7th Framework Programme (grant 278173) SOPHIE project, namely Evaluating the Impact of Structural Policies on Health Inequalities, enhancing and enriching this work by a multi-disciplinary collaboration. One chapter is a co-authored research recently published as EUI working paper. The other chapters are sole responsibility of the candidate.