Climate change, armed conflict, forced displacement, and epidemic-prone diseases: an exploratory study in northern Syria.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Northern Syria is particularly vulnerable to the joint effects of climate change and conflict. This has contributed to numerous infectious disease outbreaks which disproportionately affect people who have been forcibly displaced. We aimed to assess the associations between environmental factors, conflict, displacement, and two types of epidemic-prone diseases in northern Syria: suspected respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases.

Methods

We used data from the Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) syndromic surveillance system between 2016 and 2023 on two suspected respiratory infections and five suspected diarrheal diseases. These cases were aggregated by disease type at the district-week level. For each disease type, we used a generalized additiv

SUBMITTER: Tarnas MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12323065 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature