id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-262205-ax3i3d7f Karampourian, Arezou Exploring challenges of health system preparedness for communicable diseases in Arbaeen mass gathering: a qualitative study 2018-09-11 .txt text/plain 6698 309 45 The aim of this study is to explore stakeholders' experiences on the health system's preparedness and challenges, and to provide suggestions for preventing infectious diseases during the Arbaeen mass gathering. Health infrastructure defects in Iraq has three sub-themes (health abandonment in Iraq, the weaknesses in health culture and problems related to the health system); poor control of the causative factors of infectious diseases has three sub-themes (the underlying factors of the prevalence of contagious diseases, health system response to communicable diseases and ignoring the risks of the Arbaeen ceremony); the low perception of risk in pilgrims has three sub-themes (lack of awareness in pilgrims, fatalism in pilgrims and unhygienic belief in pilgrims); and the ineffectiveness of health education has two sub-themes (training shortage in the targeted group and educational content problems) that shows participant's experiences of the health system's challenges for coping with infectious diseases during the Arbaeen ceremony. ./cache/cord-262205-ax3i3d7f.txt ./txt/cord-262205-ax3i3d7f.txt