Prevalence of non-communicable diseases and access to care among non-camp Syrian refugees in northern Jordan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tackling the high non-communicable disease (NCD) burden among Syrian refugees poses a challenge to humanitarian actors and host countries. Current response priorities are the identification and integration of key interventions for NCD care into humanitarian programs as well as sustainable financing. To provide evidence for effective NCD intervention planning, we conducted a cross-sectional survey among non-camp Syrian refugees in northern Jordan to investigate the burden and determinants for high NCDs prevalence and NCD multi-morbidities and assess the access to NCD care.

Methods

We used a two-stage cluster design with 329 randomly selected clusters and eight households identified through snowball sampling. Consenting households were interviewed about self-reporte

SUBMITTER: Rehr M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6040066 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature