A Call for Emergency Action: Telepsychiatry for Trauma Treatment Among Syrian Refugees

The war in Syria has entered the seventh year, with no sign of resolution. It is often referred as "the greatest human tragedy" since World War 2. Because of limited health facilities, we propose telepsychiatric interventions for the provision of mental healthcare services in Syria and in...

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Autores principales: Aadil, Muhammad, Cosme, Rosario M, Forcen, Fernando E, Khan, Ahmad R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Public Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5647129/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29057190
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1578
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description The war in Syria has entered the seventh year, with no sign of resolution. It is often referred as "the greatest human tragedy" since World War 2. Because of limited health facilities, we propose telepsychiatric interventions for the provision of mental healthcare services in Syria and in refugee camps to treat post-trauma patients. 
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spelling pubmed-56471292017-10-22 A Call for Emergency Action: Telepsychiatry for Trauma Treatment Among Syrian Refugees Aadil, Muhammad Cosme, Rosario M Forcen, Fernando E Khan, Ahmad R Cureus Public Health The war in Syria has entered the seventh year, with no sign of resolution. It is often referred as "the greatest human tragedy" since World War 2. Because of limited health facilities, we propose telepsychiatric interventions for the provision of mental healthcare services in Syria and in refugee camps to treat post-trauma patients.  Cureus 2017-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5647129/ /pubmed/29057190 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1578 Text en Copyright © 2017, Aadil et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1578
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