Syrian refugees, between rocky crisis in Syria and hard inaccessibility to healthcare services in Lebanon and Jordan

Conflict and Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  El Khatib, Ziad ^a,b   Scales, David ^c   Vearey, Jo ^d   Forsberg, Birger C ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Access to healthcare; Jordan; Lebanon; Refugees; Syria

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883302604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17521505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-1505-7-18     Document Type: Article

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