a Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences , American University of Beirut , Beirut , Lebanon.
b Department of Anthropology , Durham University , Durham , UK.
Glob Public Health. 2018 Mar;13(3):288-297. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2017.1395469. Epub 2017 Nov 3.
The proliferation of conflicts across borders of Middle Eastern States has transformed the landscapes of health and healthcare across the region. In the case of Iraq, state healthcare has collapsed under the strain of protracted conflicts. Meanwhile, Lebanon's post-war healthcare system is booming, and becoming more privatised. In this paper, we build on an ethnographic study on the movements and experiences of Iraqi patients in Lebanon to show how one of the consequences of war is the rise of alternative forms of healthcare-seeking practices and survival strategies - a therapeutic geography that is embedded in regional economies and geopolitical relations and reconfigurations. We argue for the need to reimagine the disconnectivity and connectivity of healthcare systems under war and conflict as grounded in the empirical realities and experiences of mobility in the Middle East.
中东国家跨境冲突的激增已经改变了该地区的健康和医疗保健格局。就伊拉克而言，长期冲突使国家医疗保健系统崩溃。与此同时，黎巴嫩战后的医疗保健系统蓬勃发展，并且变得更加私有化。在本文中，我们基于对在黎巴嫩的伊拉克患者的流动和经历的民族志研究，展示了战争的后果之一是寻求医疗的替代形式和生存策略的兴起——一种治疗地理，它嵌入在区域经济和地缘政治关系及重组之中。我们认为，有必要根据中东地区流动的实际情况和经验，重新想象战争和冲突下医疗系统的不连续性和连接性。
