Establishment of a birth-to-education cohort of 1 million Palestinian refugees using electronic medical records and electronic education records.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

By linking datasets, electronic records can be used to build large birth-cohorts, enabling researchers to cost-effectively answer questions relevant to populations over the life-course. Currently, around 5.8 million Palestinian refugees live in five settings: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank, and Gaza Strip. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) provides them with free primary health and elementary-school services. It maintains electronic records to do so.We aimed to establish a birth cohort of Palestinian refugees born between 1st January 2010 and 31st December 2020 living in five settings by linking mother obstetric records with child health and education records and to describe some of the cohort characteristics.

SUBMITTER: Jamaluddine Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10898319 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature