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In the past 10-15 years, thousands of civilians in Gaza have experienced conflict-related traumatic injuries. How injuries affect survivors' risks of negative long-term health effects and serious illness is unclear. We report follow-up findings in a group of patients with traumatic amputations. ⋯ The Norwegian street-artist AFK provided €1,500 to this project, which was used to cover patients' transportation costs.
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Conflict impacts food security and decreases household dietary diversity. However, few studies have explored the routes by which prolonged conflict and social stressors affect food insecurity experience and food diversity. This study examines the influence of political, economic, and agricultural stressors on food insecurity and food diversity, and evaluates variations in food insecurity and food diversity with location of residence for households in the occupied Palestinian territory. ⋯ The Emirates Foundation.
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Breast cancer is the most common cancer (accounting for 31·3% of all cancers) among women in the Gaza Strip. This audit examines clinical and pathological characteristics of women presenting with breast carcinoma to the European Gaza Hospital (EGH), a governmental hospital and oncological centre serving 600 000 people in the southern Gaza Strip. ⋯ None.
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The migration of medical professionals is a global health challenge, as emigration can weaken local health systems. Factors contributing towards this problem include inadequate job opportunities, low job satisfaction, and difficulty in accessing or substandard residency training. Longstanding political instability in Gaza, occupied Palestinian territory, has affected the health-care system. For instance, medical doctors working in governmental hospitals have received less than half of their salaries every few months for the past 10 years. We explored the intentions of medical professionals and students to do their residency training abroad and their career plans afterwards. ⋯ None.
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There is an absence of mental health services within general hospitals in Gaza. As part of the Ministry of Health plan to develop mental health liaison services, a cross-sectional survey of the prevalence of and risk factors for psychological distress in attendees at two general hospitals was undertaken to estimate and highlight the need for establishing such services. ⋯ WHO, occupied Palestinian territory, as part of the EU project "Building Palestinian resilience: improving psychosocial and mental health responses in emergency".