Access to Health Care and Tensions in Jordanian Communities Hosting Syrian Refugees

This study is part of a series of thematic reports, following two previously released papers, based on assessment findings where sector-specific needs of self-settled Syrian refugees living in northern Jordan were mapped and identified.17 The overall assessment, conducted from August 2013 to March 2014, concentrated on the dynamics of refugee-host community relations and explored factors influencing tension and destabilization. This report has a special focus on tensions relating to health care in 160 host communities assessed across the governorates of Ajloun, Balqa, Irbid, Jarash, Al Mafraq, and Zarqa in northern Jordan. Quantitative and qualitative findings included in this report provide evidence to suggest that negative perceptions of health care may be escalating community tension and eroding social cohesion in Jordanian host communities.