We Wait for a Miracle

Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced

De: Muhammad H. Zaman

Narrado por: Tim Danko

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.

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 countries - Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Colombia, and Venezuela - Zaman shares the everyday struggles of refugees, the internally displaced, and the stateless in accessing the health care they need.

Zaman combines personal and journalistic accounts of refugees with broad systemic analysis on global health care access to compare problems and solutions in different regions and provide holistic policy and practice recommendations for refugees, internally displaced persons, and stateless populations.

The book is published Johns Hopkins University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.

©2023 Johns Hopkins University Press (P)2025 Redwood Audiobooks

Reseñas de la Crítica

"This is a must read." (Jessica Goudeau, author of After the Last Border)

"This is a rare book, as moving as it is informative..." (Jenna Krajeski, co-author of Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds)

"Should be on the reading list of all NGOs working with refugees and displaced and stateless persons...Accessible and engrossing." (Doody's Review Service)