ABSTRACT
Everyone has the right to the highest attainable standard of health. Not only access to health care determines the standard of health for a person. Poor social and economic circumstances affect health throughout life. Poverty and social exclusion have a major impact on health and premature death. Social justice and social equality affect the way people live, their chances of illness, and risk of premature death. Social and economic policies have a determining impact on whether a child can grow and develop to its full potential and live a flourishing life, or whether its life will be blighted. This chapter focuses on the Right to Health in the context of migration and the report of an official Inquiry in Sweden on the Right to Health of migrants. Sweden is similar to many other European countries with growing numbers of Undocumented Migrants (UDM). Mental health services, the Sami, the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia, harm-reduction and asylum seekers and UDM.
