Political Economy of Healthcare and Forced Migration in Developing Countries: Assessment of Syrian Refugees’ Access to Healthcare in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey

Abstract

Huge influx of refugees, following 2011 Syrian civil war and humanitarian crisis, put pressure on the domestic economy and test resilience of public services in host countries. Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey are the three countries that host the highest number of Syrian refugees and as developing countries the resources available tend to be relatively limited. In this paper, I argue that the fragmentation of health care system, overall integration policies and underlying institutional weaknesses, political power dynamics are the main determinants of refugees’ health access in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey, and assess and evaluate the integration policies of the countries.