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Young people constitute 46% of the population in the West Bank of Israel and 48% in the Gaza Strip with a rate of growth of 3.1% and 3.4%, respectively. Their living conditions are characterized by lack of sanitation, shortage of water (especially in comparison to Israel proper), unemployment, curfews and closing of schools during tense periods by the military authorities as collective punishment for incidents. Since 1967, Israel has controlled and administered the health care service in these territories. Since the 1980s dilution of pediatric care has been documented in the West Bank: there were no special services available for treating 200 Palestinian children with malignant tumors. Decentralization has resulted in only 1 project around Hebron and in 10 villages in the vicinity of Jerico when the objective was to reach by community-based service 200 villages in want of out patient child and maternal health services. Official Israeli sources indicated a greatly reduced infant mortality by 1987; to below 30/1000, but other sources indicated 91/1000 live births under 1 year of age and 120/1000 under 3 years of age. These rates are contrasted with 18/1000 among the Palestinian community in Israel and 12/1000 among the Hebrew population itself. Infant mortality and morbidity is caused by diarrheal and respiratory diseases. A high incidence of dental caries and dermatological and intestinal parasitological problems have also been encountered by an Italian medical team. In 3 villages studied there was a 32% incidence of intestinal parasitic infection in children up to 3 years of age; 26% giardia lamblia, 3% entamoeba histolytica, 3% hymenolepis nana, 3% entamoeba coli, and 1% ascaris lumbricoides. 3% had double infestation. In 1990 the UN registered 329 cases of measles: 252 in Syria, 45 in Lebanon, and 122 in Gaza. 153 of these had been vaccinated, and in Gaza there had been a measles vaccination campaign. The incidence of diseases dependent on the environment have decreased: infantile diarrhea, infectious hepatitis, and intestinal fever. The problems of public health can only be resolved by an independent national authority.
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PMID:[The living and health conditions of Palestinian children]. 129 73