page_title: Refugee
section_title: Medical problems
hierarchical_section_title: Refugee / Issues / Medical problems
caption_attribution_description: The majority of the half million Syrian refugees in Jordan live in urban areas like Ramtha. Although they have been welcomed by Jordanian communities, many refugees are poor and unable to obtain legal jobs. The UK is helping to meet the needs urban refugees as well as those in camps. Find out more about UK support for the Syria humanitarian crisis Picture: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development
context_page_description: A refugee, generally speaking, is a displaced person who has been forced to cross national boundaries and who cannot return home safely. Such a person may be called an asylum seeker until granted refugee status by the contracting state or the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees if they formally make a claim for asylum.
  The lead international agency coordinating refugee protection is the United Nations Office of the UNHCR. The United Nations has a second Office for refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency or UNRWA, which is solely responsible for supporting the large majority of Palestinian refugees.
context_section_description: Refugees typically report poorer levels of health, compared to other immigrants and the non-immigrant population.
caption: Refugee children from Syria at a clinic in Ramtha, Jordan, August 2013
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