Within health systems, equity between migrants and native-born citizens is still a long way from being achieved. Benchmarking the equitability of policies on migrant health is essential for monitoring progress and identifying positive and negative aspects of national policies. For this purpose, the 2015 round of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) was expanded to include a strand on health, in a collaborative project carried out between 2013 and 2017 in 38 countries.
Ingleby D, Petrova-Benedict R, Huddleston T, Sanchez E, and the MIPEX Health strand Consortium (2018). The MIPEX Health strand: a longitudinal, mixed-methods survey of policies on migrant health in 38 countries. European Journal of Public Health, advance online publication.
