Comments on the article: “Syrian refugees in Lebanon: the search for universal health coverage”

This letter intends to clarify information and misconceptions found in the article “Syrian refugees in Lebanon: the search for universal health coverage” which was published June 1st, 2016, and to challenge the core notion of fragmentation as presented by the authors. It also highlights the fact tha...

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Autores principales: Ammar, Walid, Radi, Alissar, El-Jardali, Fadi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Letter to Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4964102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27471548
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-016-0090-9
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spelling pubmed-49641022016-07-29 Comments on the article: “Syrian refugees in Lebanon: the search for universal health coverage” Ammar, Walid Radi, Alissar El-Jardali, Fadi Confl Health Letter to Editor This letter intends to clarify information and misconceptions found in the article “Syrian refugees in Lebanon: the search for universal health coverage” which was published June 1st, 2016, and to challenge the core notion of fragmentation as presented by the authors. It also highlights the fact that the article does not recognize the severe shortage in refugees health financing and unmet promises by the international community, and calls for immediate action and far greater support from that community to address the needs of refugees in Lebanon. BioMed Central 2016-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4964102/ /pubmed/27471548 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-016-0090-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4964102/
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