Identifying Syrian refugees in Turkish microdata

Outpatient admissions and hospital costs of Syrian refugees in a Turkish university hospital

OBJECTIVES To examine the most frequent admitted polyclinics, diagnoses, and the costs of Syrian refugee patient in a Turkish university hospital in the metropolitan city of Istanbul, Western part of Turkey.  METHODS Research methodology consist of analyzing outpatient admissions to the Hospital Polyclinics of Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey from January...

Syrian refugees and information precarity

This study employed focus groups to examine the ways Syrian refugees living in a large refugee camp in Jordan are using cell phones to cope with information precarity, a condition of information instability and insecurity that may result in heightened exposure to violence. These refugees are found to experience information precarity in terms of technological and social access to relevant inform...

Global assistance in caring for Syrian refugees.

Main text In 2013, while I was the Minister of Health and Minister of Environment in Jordan, the majority of the neonates at neonate unit at the Mafraq Maternity and Neonate Hospital in northern Jordan were borne to Syrian women (Syrian refugees needed up to 18 of the 20 beds most of the time during that year). This makes me agree with the work of Fuat Emre Canpolat et al. which concluded that ...

Syrian refugees desperately need our help.

Enhancing need satisfaction to reduce psychological distress in Syrian refugees.

OBJECTIVE Becoming a refugee is a potent risk factor for indicators of psychological distress such as depression, generalized stress, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), though research into this vulnerable population has been scant, with even less work focusing on interventions. The current study applied principles from self-determination theory (SDT; Ryan & Deci, 2000) to develop and te...