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Healthcare for migrants in Finland
SHAPE's editorial comparison places migrant healthcare access in Finland in the middle category (Warning). Entitlement: Residence- and protection-status based; urgent/necessary care pathway.
Middle category
Provider type: Wellbeing services counties / reception services / NGO · International migrants (2024): 514,432
- Access rule: Residents and eligible protection groups use public services; people without a municipality of residence can obtain urgent care and care judged necessary under applicable rules.
- Main barriers: Eligibility interpretation, fees, identification, language and local implementation can delay routine or continuing care.
- Migration measure: UN DESA estimates 514,432 international migrants at mid-year 2024. This is a point-in-time stock, not the number of people who arrived during 2024. The estimate is based on the foreign-born population.
- Origin definition: The origin shares below use country or area of birth for foreign-born estimates and country of citizenship for foreign-citizen estimates. They do not establish a person's nationality, ethnicity, language, reason for migration, legal status, recent-arrival status or undocumented status.
- Measurement basis: Foreign-born population (UN DESA code B)
- Evidence note: ECDC indicators use 2024 reports: the foreign-born share is calculated only among diagnoses with known origin; late diagnosis is the country-level share with CD4 <350 cells/µL and is not migrant-specific. Data Unavailable means no sufficiently interpretable value was published; a blank is not zero. The status is an editorial comparison of legal entitlement and practical access and does not apply equally to every migrant group.
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