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The Mortality Experience of Kurdish Refugees Remaining in Turkey
Author(s) -
KNELLER ROBERT W.,
INGOLFSDOTTIR KRISTIN,
REVEL JEANPIERRE
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1992.tb00403.x
Subject(s) - refugee , medicine , demography , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , poison control , population , suicide prevention , mortality rate , human factors and ergonomics , pediatrics , environmental health , geography , surgery , archaeology , pathology , sociology
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.