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Heart Disease in Syrian Refugee Children: Experience at Jordan University Hospital

Author(s) -

Iyad AlAmmouri,

Fares Ayoub

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

annals of global health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602

H-Index - 66

ISSN - 2214-9996

DOI - 10.1016/j.aogh.2015.02.517

Subject(s) - refugee , medicine , pediatrics , heart failure , disease , mortality rate , presentation (obstetrics) , heart disease , economic shortage , health care , intensive care medicine , surgery , political science , government (linguistics) , law , linguistics , philosophy

Since March 2011, an estimated 600,000 Syrian refugees crossed into Jordan, of which 52% were children. Demand for health care is overwhelming. The burden of heart disease in Syrian refugee children is not known. The aim of this study WAS to describe heart disease in Syrian refugee children in terms of diagnoses, presentation, outcome, and funding sources for treatment.

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