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. 2018 Oct 29;9(1):010402. doi: 10.7189/jogh.09.010402

Table 2.

Key findings of included studies

Theme Key findings
Education
Negative consequence of conflict on education include: inadequate competencies, lower quality of education, limited professional development.
Main training areas needed in conflict setting: emergency medicine, trauma care, first aid and midwifery.
Main providers of training: international aid organizations.
Migration
Migration consequences: shortage of health workers, weakening the health system, raising serious challenges to future reconstruction effort.
Factors predicting migration from conflict areas: financial issues, security and training concerns
Practicing in conflict setting
Practice settings in conflict suffer from: shortages of water, electricity and poor sanitation, lack of equipment, supplies and drugs.
Heath workers practicing in conflict settings lack expertise mainly in emergency medicine.
Violence Health care workers in conflict setting being arrested, tortured, and killed contravening humanitarian law.
Health workers were also threatened by the different armed groups to force them to treat their members preferentially breaching medical neutrality.
Doctors were getting assaulted, violated, and humiliated (in emergency departments) due to lack of security, internal political corruption, and inadequate repartition of physician.