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Women's health in Northwestern Syria: Findings from Healthy-Syria 2017 study.
Terkawi, Abdullah Sulieman; Bakri, Basil; Alsadek, Amena S; Alsibaee, Rawaa H; Alasfar, Esraa M; Albakour, Amna H; Aljouja, Abdulhannan Y; Alshaikhwais, Nour A; Fares, Feras A; Flood, Pamela D; Jnaid, Hussam; Najib, Amina A; Saloom, Diaa A; Zahra, Noran A; Altirkawi, Khalid A.
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  • Terkawi AS; Syrian Expatriate Medical Association (SEMA), SEMA-US, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
  • Bakri B; Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
  • Alsadek AS; Department of Anaesthesiology, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  • Alsibaee RH; Outcomes Research Consortium, Cleveland, OH, USA.
  • Alasfar EM; Syrian Expatriate Medical Association (SEMA), SEMA-US, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
  • Albakour AH; Syrian Expatriate Medical Association, Idlib, Syria.
  • Aljouja AY; Syrian Expatriate Medical Association (SEMA), SEMA-Turkey, Gaziantep, Turkey.
  • Alshaikhwais NA; Charlottesville, VA, USA.
  • Fares FA; Syrian Expatriate Medical Association, Idlib, Syria.
  • Flood PD; Syrian Expatriate Medical Association (SEMA), SEMA-Turkey, Gaziantep, Turkey.
  • Jnaid H; Syrian Expatriate Medical Association, Idlib, Syria.
  • Najib AA; Syrian Expatriate Medical Association (SEMA), SEMA-Turkey, Gaziantep, Turkey.
  • Saloom DA; Department of Anaesthesiology, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
  • Zahra NA; Syrian Expatriate Medical Association (SEMA), SEMA-Turkey, Gaziantep, Turkey.
  • Altirkawi KA; Section Head of Polyclinics, Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinics, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Avicenna J Med ; 9(3): 94-106, 2019.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31404201
OBJECTIVES: Since the uprising in 2011, there have been limited health-care data from inside Syria regarding women's health. This study aimed to provide an updated account of women's health, including pregnancy, perinatal care, childbirth, and other conditions to identify obstacles and challenges to health-care delivery in Northwestern Syria. METHODS: This is a prospective data registry study, using a medical electronic records system that builds on the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes. We collected data from one medical center in Northwestern Syria during 2017. We conducted a survey to understand patients' knowledge of and barriers limiting antenatal care (ANC). RESULTS: We studied 7213 patients' health status and surveyed 134 regarding ANC. Prenatal care, delivery, and miscarriage treatment represented the most common (70%) reasons for women's health-care visits, followed by menstrual disorders (17%). From 2057 delivery records, 70% delivered vaginally and 30% required cesarean delivery. Our findings showed that 1169 (24%) of the pregnant women (4936) in 2017 were adolescents, of them 22 (0.44%) were 14 years old. Regarding ANC visits, 85% of respondents did not have a single ANC visit in the first trimester, 82% had no visits in the second trimester, and 44% had no visits in the third trimester. Thirty-one percent had no ANC visit throughout the entire pregnancy. Only 13% had postnatal care (PNC) visits. Women who live in the refugee camp are 2.7 times less likely to meet the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria for focused ANC (FANC = 4 visits) compared to those who reside in town (P < 0.001), with only 14% having met the FANC. The major barrier to ANC is related to transportation (34%), followed by factors related to the study center (29%) and knowledge and education (19%). We estimated the number of obstetrics-gynecology doctors per 1000 populations to be 0.02. CONCLUSIONS: We found a huge deficiency in ANC and PNC visits, a high adolescent birth rate, and a higher cesarean-to-vaginal delivery ratio than what is recommended by the WHO. We also found a severe shortage in the number of obstetrician-gynecologists serving this population.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Tipo de estudio: Diagnostic_studies / Prognostic_studies Aspecto: Patient_preference Idioma: En Revista: Avicenna J Med Año: 2019 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Alemania

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Tipo de estudio: Diagnostic_studies / Prognostic_studies Aspecto: Patient_preference Idioma: En Revista: Avicenna J Med Año: 2019 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Estados Unidos Pais de publicación: Alemania