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SUBMITTER: Baxter LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6311030 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baxter Louisa M LM Eldin Manal Shams MS Al Mohammed Ali A Saim Malika M Checchi Francesco F
Conflict and health 20181229
During June 2014 to April 2017, the population of Mosul, Iraq lived in a state of increasing isolation from the rest of Iraq due to the city's occupation by the Islamic State group. As part of a study to develop a generalisable method for estimating the excess burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in conflict-affected settings, in April-May 2017 we conducted a brief qualitative study of self-reported care for NCDs among 15 adult patients who had fled Mosul and presented to Médecins Sans Fro ...[more]