Six month follow up in communicable versus non-communicable diseases in an Iraqi refugee cam

Abstract

Introduction: Massive internal displacement of Iraqi civilian in Autono-mous Kurdistan led to humanitarian catastrophe. The aim of the study is to assess comparison of communicable to non-communicable diseases among the internally displaced in Autonomous Kurdistan. Patients and Methods: In an open cohort two arm study, children vs adults and communicable vs non-communicable diseases, the occur-rence of infectious and non-infectious diseases were compared during the first 6 months of 2016. Within the selected population of refugees Original Articles