NavGeneral InfoEmail Print Provider World Health Organization (WHO)Microdata access: Request Geography Syrian Arab Republic (SYR) Coverage type Country Time period covered 01/2000 - 12/2001 Series or system Multi-country Survey Study on Health and Health System Responsiveness (MCSS) Data type Survey: HouseholdInterviewNationally representative Summary The WHO Multi-country Survey Study (MCSS) was carried out in 61 countries from 2000 to 2001. The study was an exercise in developing research instruments for assessing the health of individuals, adult mortality, health system responsiveness, and household health care expenditures. The survey modes, which varied from country to country, included in-person individual interviews, telephone surveys, and mail surveys. Keywords Alcohol use, Alcohol use disorders, Appetite loss, Back pain, Body mass index, Breathing difficulty, Causes of death, Causes of morbidity, Dental care, Diarrhea, Disability, Disability weights, Drug consumption, Education, Electricity, Employment, Ethnicity, Family composition, Family size, Female infertility, Fertility, Food expenditures, Headache, Health care access, Health care use, Health facilities, Health facility conditions, Health insurance, Health status, Hearing aids, Hearing loss, Height, Home care, Hospitals, Household deaths, Household heat, Housing conditions, Illicit drug use, Income, Laboratories, Limited mobility, Live births, Male infertility, Marital status, Mental health symptoms, Musculoskeletal diseases, Pain, Personal health expenditures, Pharmacies, Race, Refrigeration, Self-inflicted injuries, Sleep, Summary birth history, Telephones, Traditional medicine, Unipolar depressive disorders, Vision loss, Weight Citation Contributors World Health Organization (WHO) Ministry of Health (Syria) Suggested citation Ministry of Health (Syria), World Health Organization (WHO). Syria WHO Multi-country Survey Study on Health and Health System Responsiveness 2000-2001. GHDx Entry last modified on: Aug 5, 2021