Citation

Kneller RW, Ingolfsdottir K, Revel JP. Disasters 1992; 16(3): 249-254.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, John Wiley and Sons)

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Abstract

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 IMR 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.