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The Safe Childbirth Project is a campaign, launched by WHO in 2012, to improve the quality of care for women and babies during childbirth by promoting evidence-based practice and a midwifery-led approach to care. It was intended to contribute towards achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal 3: ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages. In September, 2015, the project was launched in the maternity ward of Dar Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City, to promote midwifery-led care for low-risk deliveries, with de-medicalisation of normal birth, early initiation of breastfeeding, and early detection of complications during the postpartum period. ⋯ None.
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The United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is one of the main health-care providers in the Gaza Strip. It provides primary health services to approximately 1·3 million Palestine refugees, comprising approximately 76% of the population of the Gaza Strip. UNRWA has well-prepared emergency health plans that are based on previous conflict experiences. However, the Great March of Return (GMR) injuries that UNRWA has faced since Mar 31, 2018, are considered a new experience of emergency. GMR is a protest activity launched by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to express their right to return to their homes, from which they were expelled in 1948. This study aimed to describe the GMR-related injury patterns in patients and the health services provided as a part of the UNRWA emergency response in Gaza. ⋯ None.
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Palestinians have been exposed to long-term violence, displacement, and conflict since the 1940s. Continued expropriation and fragmentation of the region has affected people's quality of life. The Biddu Enclave communities, located northwest of Jerusalem, are behind a barrier wall that detaches them from Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank other than by access through a tunnel controlled by the Israeli authorities. The enclave is fully or partially under Israeli administration. We explored the effects of socioeconomic and geographical transformations and isolation on the quality of life of these communities, specifically on daily uncertainty, stress, and overall wellbeing of residents. ⋯ Arab Council for Social Sciences.
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Estimated dates of delivery have important consequences for clinical decisions during pregnancy and labour. The Electronic Maternal and Child Health Registry (MCH eRegistry) in Palestine includes antenatal care data and birth data from hospitals. Our objective was to compare computed best estimates of gestational age in the MCH eRegistry with the gestational ages recorded by health-care providers in hospital delivery units. ⋯ European Research Council, Research Council of Norway.
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In Gaza, 2 million people have been affected by more than 13 years of strict land, air, and sea blockades and three wars, during which over 4000 people have been killed and many more have been injured. Additional severe effects have been seen on lives, aspirations, and prospects. Given the conditions, medical students have many competing reasons for and against studying medicine abroad. We investigated motives, academic situations, and future plans of the upcoming generation of doctors in Gaza, occupied Palestinian territory. ⋯ None.