Published January 22, 2010
Executive summary
This special issue on violent conflict and health examines the devastating effects of conflict on human health: direct injury from fighting, indirect morbidity and mortality caused by the breakdown of public health, and the effects on mental health which may affect quality of life, disability, and survival many years after the initial trauma. The special issue assesses the health consequences of violent conflict on civilians and combatants and also discusses wider societal consequences and ethical issues, particularly the routine breaking of the Geneva Conventions.
Issue Comments
Estimating the number of civilian deaths from armed conflicts
Francesco Checchi
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Psychiatric problems in medically evacuated service members
J Don Richardson, Jitender Sareen, Jon D Elhai
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Domestic and political violence: the Palestinian predicament
Rita Giacaman, Yoke Rabaia, Viet Nguyen-Gillham
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Provision of secondary care in fragile state contexts
Fiona Campbell, Linda Doull
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Rethinking surgical care in conflict
Kathryn Chu, Miguel Trelles, Nathan Ford
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Issue Articles
Patterns of mortality rates in Darfur conflict
Olivier Degomme, Debarati Guha-Sapir
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Diagnoses and factors associated with medical evacuation and return to duty for service members participating in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom: a prospective cohort study
Steven P Cohen, Charlie Brown, Connie Kurihara, Anthony Plunkett, Conner Nguyen, Scott A Strassels
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Association between exposure to political violence and intimate-partner violence in the occupied Palestinian territory: a cross-sectional study
Cari Jo Clark, Susan A Everson-Rose, Shakira Franco Suglia, Rula Btoush, Alvaro Alonso, Muhammad M Haj-Yahia
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Audio
David Molyneux introduces the themed issue on violent conflict and health.
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Issue Health Policy
Responsibility for protection of medical workers and facilities in armed conflict
Leonard S Rubenstein, Melanie D Bittle
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Issue Viewpoint
Health-care needs of people affected by conflict: future trends and changing frameworks
Paul B Spiegel, Francesco Checchi, Sandro Colombo, Eugene Paik
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Unseen scars of conflict
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