Health Care on the Edge — Challenges of Refugee Medicine | NEJM

In this Double Take video from the New England Journal of Medicine, Ximena Rojas García, Psyche Calderon Vargas, Hannah Janeway, and C. Nicholas Cuneo from the Refugee Health Alliance and the HEAL Refugee Health and Asylum Collaborative discuss the complex health care challenges, urgent needs, and substantial, multifaceted trauma that refugees experience in their journey to seek asylum in the United States. They summarize the range of services available to refugees at the U.S.–Mexico border and underscore the importance of taking a holistic approach when providing care to this patient population. The New England Journal of Medicine is the world’s leading general medical journal. Continuously published for over 200 years, NEJM publishes peer-reviewed research along with interactive clinical content for physicians, educators, and the global medical community at https://NEJM.org. #asylum #asylumseekers #refugees #publichealth #traumainformedcare #migration #healthcareaccess