Abstract
The relatively poor health status of the Roma population in Slovakia ranks among the widest, steepest and most enduring intra-state health disparities in Central and Eastern Europe. The presented qualitative study examined how and why, paradoxically, this and analogous inequities might be systematically supported by the respective countries’ own health systems, too.
Aimed primarily at researchers pursuing analogous questions, the first part of the publication reviews the basic specifications, limitations and advantages of the study design. In the second part, the main study findings are summarised, offering types, sources and differential negative effects of limitations in everyday health-system practice, as experienced from within by consulted Roma-serving practitioners.
The publication closes with recommendations for various groups the study has identified as being involved or being advisable for future involvement.