The Health of the Newest Americans: How US Public Health Systems Can Support Syrian Refugees.

The statistics are stunning: 1.9 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, 1.7 million in Lebanon, 630 000 in Jordan, 506 000 in the European Union, and 1883 in the United States.1–3 The United States will admit an additional 10 000 Syrian refugees during the next fiscal year, at which point Syrians will constitute approximately 18% of the total refugee population admitted in 2016.4 But this is not a public health emergency in the United States.