Accessibility to Health Care Services and Treatment for People with Noncommunicable Diseases in Northwest Syria.
| Autor: | Ballout K; Health Policy and Global Health Department, Public Health Institute, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Türkiye., Mehmet Orhun N; Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Türkiye. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | International journal of social determinants of health and health services [Int J Soc Determinants Health Health Serv] 2024 Oct; Vol. 54 (4), pp. 441-453. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 01. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/27551938241269144 |
| Abstrakt: | We assessed the accessibility to health care services and treatment for people with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Northwest Syria after more than eleven years of the worst humanitarian crisis in Syria. Included in this cross-sectional study were people with one or more of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancer, or chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases; people from both Aleppo and Idleb governorates; and residents from both inside and outside the camp. Data were collected in November 2022 via face-to-face interviews. The findings were obtained from 674 respondents (52.8% female). Respondents in Idleb were 6.5 times more likely to access health care services than Aleppo ( p = 0000). In-camp residents were 1.5 times more likely to access outreach health services ( p = 0.020). Respondents with higher income were three times more likely to access health care services compared to respondents with lower income ( p = 0.000). Having any of the surveyed NCDs made the respondents less likely to get the required services. The study findings added more evidence about the inequity in terms of accessing health care services in Northwest Syria and identified the barriers. It was clear that a perceived group of people with NCDs do not have access to the health care services, including outreach health services and free medications. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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