Changes in healthcare seeking behaviors among caretakers of children in the previously occupied Isis territory

Hadeetha, Anbar, Iraq: a cross-sectional survey of 415 households

Bibliographic Data

ID15554571
AuthorsSara Al-Dahir (0000-0003-3365-6113, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author), Tahseen Abdulateef Hasan (Ministry of Health), Alaa Khalil (Nunez Community College), William J Moss (0000-0001-6579-3513, Johns Hopkins University), Kawsar R Talaat (0000-0002-4899-6260, Johns Hopkins University), Maria Deloria Knoll (0000-0001-9041-2671, Johns Hopkins University), Gilbert Burnham (0000-0002-9991-4894, Johns Hopkins University)
Year2024
Volume18
Issue1
Pages64-64
Publication date2024-10-21
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueConflict and Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1752-1505 • E-ISSN: 1752-1505
PublisherBioMed Central (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1186/s13031-024-00622-4
PMID39434165
OpenAlexW4403605068
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

This study provides insight into health seeking challenges among the many individuals who remained in Hadeetha during the ISIS occupation. Health use patterns by provider type mirror the concerns the healthcare providers shared: limited availability, efflux of professional workers, limited resources and security challenges to providing care. Positive trends toward increased access to physicians during periods of peace are an encouraging marker for continued population resilience during the post-conflict period. Recovery efforts continue to be hampered by internal sectarian discord within Iraq as well as insufficient resources to maintain health services as well as provide catch-up health services, such as immunizations

Biostatistics · Cross-sectional study · Environmental health · Geography · Health care · Health services research · Political science · Public health · Global Maternal and Child Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing · Epidemiology

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