Fertility characteristics and related factors impacting on Syrian refugee women living in Istanbul.

Background: Women's fertility characteristics are affected by many different factors.

Aim: To gain an awareness of fertility characteristics of Syrian refugee women and the influential factors.

Methods: This study was planned as a cross-sectional study to determine the efficiency and related factors of Syrian refugees living in Istanbul.

Supporting safe motherhood services in Diyarbakir: a community-based distribution project.

To provide pregnant and puerperal women experiencing problems with receiving health care in Diyarbakir, Turkey, with an education program and counseling to help them attain appropriate health behaviors and to support receiving health care through a community based distribution model. This article is a descriptive report of a qualitative community based distribution project conducted in cooperation with the Women's Research and Implementation Centre (WRIC) of Diyarbakir Metropolitan Municipality (DMM) and Turkish Family Health and Planning Foundation. The study was carried out between March 2007 and April 2008 in six districts of Diyarbakir, a region with a population of 37,000 people of low socio-economic status and who immigrated from the surrounding villages.

A safe motherhood education and counselling programme in Istanbul.

Objective: Evaluation of an education/counselling programme intended for pregnant/puerperal women in a secondary health care facility.

Methods: The education/counselling programme was launched in September 2004, following the preparation of environmental and material components. Evaluation of the two-year project was achieved by means of satisfaction surveys of service receivers and service providers, an information survey of service receivers and focus group discussions (FGDs) for both groups.