The number of deaths amongst respondents’ siblings and children under five in Yemen were too low to allow meaningful analysis. Analysis of the subset of individuals who died in Yemen also suggested an increased, but non-significant hazard of dying during the war/pandemic period: this association tended towards significance when allowing for varying degrees of out-migration from Yemen across the cohort. An analysis of survivorship of respondents’ parents after their 50th birthday (adjusted for gender and birth cohort) provided weak evidence that the war and pandemic periods were associated with higher mortality when compared to the pre-war period. Respondents provided data on the status of 1704 individuals of whom 85 (5%) had died of these 65 (3.8%) were reported to have died in Yemen. ResultsĮighty-nine eligible respondents completed the survey. between the pre-conflict, conflict, and conflict/pandemic periods) and mortality risk, adjusted for gender and birth cohort. We used Cox proportional hazards survival models to estimate the association between the exposure (i.e. We used a web-based, respondent-driven sampling method to disseminate a mortality survey amongst the global Yemeni diaspora. As the security situation has limited access to affected populations we have designed a novel alternative to local mortality surveys. Despite eight years of conflict there exist few robust estimates of how the conflict (and the conflict combined with the COVID-19 pandemic) have affected mortality in Yemen. The ongoing war in Yemen has created a severe and protracted crisis that has left nearly three-quarters of the population in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.
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