📗 Libro en inglés WE WAIT FOR A MIRACLE

The story of how we treat refugees is a story about our own moral failings and the barriers that refugees face in accessing health care can be as difficult to overcome as any other adversity in their path to stability Around the world millions are forcibly displaced by conflict climate change and persecution Some cross international borders while others are displaced within their own countries In We Wait for a Miracle Muhammad H Zaman shares poignant stories across continents to highlight the health care experiences of refugees and forced migrants For many of these people health risks unfortunately become part of the fabric of everyday life as they navigate new countries that treat them with varying degrees of care and indifference Across widely varied local systems countries of origin health concerns and other contexts Zaman finds that barriers to health care share these key factors trust social network efficiency of the health system and the regulatory framework of the host environment A combination of these factors explains difficulties in accessing health care across the geographic and geopolitical spectrum and challenges the existing global public health framework which is based entirely on local context In moving stories that span seven co