Health-related articles on Syria before and after the start of armed conflict: a scoping review for The Lancet-American University of Beirut Commission on Syria.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Armed conflict may influence the size and scope of research in Arab countries. We aimed to assess the impact of the 2011 Syrian conflict on health articles about Syria published in indexed journals.

Methods

We conducted a scoping review on Syrian health-related articles using seven electronic databases. We included clinical, biomedical, public health, or health system topics published between 1991 and 2017. We excluded animal studies and studies conducted on Syrian refugees. We used descriptive and social network analyses to assess the differences in rates, types, topics of articles, and authorship before and after 2011, the start of the Syrian conflict.

Results

Of 1138 articles, 826 (72.6%) were published after 2011. Articles published after 2011 were le

SUBMITTER: Abdul-Khalek RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7643257 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature