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French presidential election: those excluded from health

It is to fight against indifference that the collective Les Morts de la rue is working to restore an identity and their dignity to the dead on the street.

(Illustrative image) © AFP/Philippe Lopez

By: Caroline Paré Follow

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Before the French presidential election, the Priorité Santé team brings you this latest program in a series of five, devoted to the major challenges facing health at the national level.

This week, we are talking about the difficulties of access to care, for socio-economic, administrative and cultural reasons, as well as geographic and territorial ones.

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In France, more than 9 million people are below the poverty line and the proportion of people in precarious situations is constantly increasing.

Faced with this observation, health actors, caregivers and NGOs are committed to improving access to care for populations in distress (homeless, poorly housed, drug users, exiles)... Other health inequalities , those related to medical deserts, medical under-resources, in rural areas as well as in peri-urban areas.

These issues will be illustrated through field reports, testimonies collected by

• Pr Olivier Bouchaud

  , head of

  the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, at the Avicenne University Hospital

  in Bobigny in the Paris region and President of

  the Association for Reception of Doctors and Health Personnel Refugees

  in France

• Florian Guyot

  , Managing Director of

  the Aurore association

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