The Mortality Experience of Kurdish Refugees Remaining in Turkey |
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Authors: | ROBERT W KNELLER KRISTIN INGOLFSDOTTIR JEAN-PIERRE REVEL |
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Institution: | Programme for the Control of Acute Respiratory Infections, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland;Icelandic Red Cross, Reykjavik, Iceland;International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland |
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Abstract: | A survey of one of the camps still holding refugees from Iraq who crossed into Turkey in the spring of 1991 showed that the majority of the population was under 15 years of age and that increased mortality occurred during the first 30 days after the refugees left their homes in Iraq. Infants, young children, and the elderly suffered the highest mortality, with infant mortality rates (IMRs) over the first month of the crisis approximately 18–29 times the MR in Iraq in the late 1980s. Still unexplained is a greater than two-fold excess mortality among males compared with females. Other demographic and health findings are also reported. |
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