Diagnoses, infections and injuries in Northern Syrian children during the civil war: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The civil war in Syria including the deliberate targeting of healthcare services resulted in a complex humanitarian emergency, seriously affecting children's health. The objectives of this study are to document diagnoses and disease categories in Northern Syrian children after four years of conflict, and to document infectious diseases and injuries in this vulnerable population.

Methods

In a prospective cross-sectional observational sample study conducted in May 2015, healthcare workers registered demographics, comorbidities, and diagnoses (categorised according to the International Classification of Diseases version 10) in children visited at home and in internally displaced persons camps in four Syrian governorates.

Results

Of 1080 filled-out records, 100

SUBMITTER: van Berlaer G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5590741 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature