INTRODUCTION: This study is a literature review regarding the institutional framework for access to health services by refugees and immigrants in Greece. A set of actors who surround and assist the institutional framework of the access have been analyzed. It should be noted that the issue of access of migrants to health began a research interest in recent years. Therefore, research efforts have been made are few. In the present study does not refer to the detention centers and shelters aliens, as I consider that the documentation requires field research, which should be associated with the existing legal framework, for being able to draw correct conclusions. AIM: Is the identification of health needs and identify the strategies followed to their satisfaction, as well as the redefinition of the legal framework for access to health services and the reorientation of migration policy and health policies. METHODOLOGY: There was a review of international and Greek literature, editorial and parallel analysis of studies and field surveys. RESULTS: It noted that the institutional framework concerning the access of refugees - migrants to health services in Greece, while until recently been restricted, altered with a positive sign to the improvement of access and use by providing equal rights to all. CONCLUSION: The phenomena of migration and refugee, are not phenomena that can be eliminated, and they will exist. Therefore we should steer, not in suppressing or limiting effects of the phenomena, but in actions to normalize the transition for both the host countries and for those who experience the phenomena. We should turn to inclusion and integration policies as it appears that the temporary nature of their stay tends to get permanent residence characteristics. Αs the burden of the refugee and migration across Europe Greece as a country and as a people, mapping new paths in modern immigration history. No closed borders summed up immigrants’ access to the labor market, as well as access to health care, education, housing, and not escalated uncertainty refugees downgrading their accommodation centers and ensured social rights of refugees and migrants. © 2018, Society of Nursing Studies. All rights reserved.

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