Situation analysis in 3,503 refugees from Mosul to Dohuk and Healthcare in an UNHCR refugee camp in Dohuk
Introduction: The aim of this situation analysis was to compare two phases, acute and post-acute, of disease epidemiology among refugees in the first 6 months (i) and a second 6 months post-acute (ii) period after displacement to an UNNCR camp within the Slovak Field Clinic. Patients and Methods: Al...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Clinical social work journal / CWS 2016-01, Vol.7 (3), p.42-44 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: The aim of this situation analysis was to compare two phases, acute and post-acute, of disease epidemiology among refugees in the first 6 months (i) and a second 6 months post-acute (ii) period after displacement to an UNNCR camp within the Slovak Field Clinic. Patients and Methods: All together, 3,503 refugees appeared before an humanitarian team at a Mobile Clinic in Dohuk and Sinjar close to the transit border in Northwestern Kurdistan where about 1 million people were displaced after ISIS took over Mosul with its 3 million inhabitants. Results: In the post-acute period, only 18 cases of diarrhea in four camps is a sign of safe water and high health food standard safety in the designated (UNHCR) camps. Conclusion: Typical infectious in overcrowded camp populations such gastroenteritis, diarrhea, Hepatitis A, were absent in our group of refugees and migrants. |
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ISSN: | 2222-386X 2076-9741 |
DOI: | 10.22359/cswhi_7_3_11 |