The health costs of war: can they be measured?

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/321/7254/169.pdf

Studies assessing the health impact of armed conflicts have documented the disruption of referrals, immunization programs, supplies, and monitoring and surveillance and increase dependence on foreign personnel and funding, but measurements have typically focused on deaths, disabilities, infant mortality, and communicable diseases, and occasionally on facilities destroyed. The case of El Salvador shows that, useful as this quantitative information is, it is insufficient to assess the effects of war on health and to provide guidelines for rehabilitation of health services.

Author(s): Ugalde, Antonio, Selva­Sutter, Ernesto, Castillo, Carolina, Paz, Carolina, Cañas, Sergio Originator(s): British Medical Journal
Resource added in: 11/12/2000
Objective: The study of El Salvador provides some glimpses of the aftereffects of the conflict on policy formation; here we discuss the impact on a single dimension of one primary care policy. During the conflict, the insurgency, assisted by foreign volunteers and funding, had develops a remarkable primary health system to provide services to the areas under its control.
Available languages: English
Health Equity, Primary Health, Health impact, Advocacy
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