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World Health Organization
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About: World Health Organization is a government organization based out in Islamabad, Pakistan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Public health. The organization has 13330 authors who have published 22232 publications receiving 1322023 citations. The organization is also known as: World Health Organisation & WHO.
Topics: Population, Public health, Health care, Health policy, Global health
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TL;DR: The limited knowledge on the health consequences of conflict is reviewed, ways to improve measurement are suggested, and the potential for risk assessment and for preventing and ameliorating the consequences of war is discussed.
Abstract: Armed conflict is a major cause of injury and death worldwide, but we need much better methods of quantification before we can accurately assess its effect
Armed conflict between warring states and groups within states have been major causes of ill health and mortality for most of human history. Conflict obviously causes deaths and injuries on the battlefield, but also health consequences from the displacement of populations, the breakdown of health and social services, and the heightened risk of disease transmission. Despite the size of the health consequences, military conflict has not received the same attention from public health research and policy as many other causes of illness and death. In contrast, political scientists have long studied the causes of war but have primarily been interested in the decision of elite groups to go to war, not in human death and misery.
We review the limited knowledge on the health consequences of conflict, suggest ways to improve measurement, and discuss the potential for risk assessment and for preventing and ameliorating the consequences of conflict.
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Conflict related death and injury are major contributors to the global burden of disease
Information systems break down during conflict, leading to great uncertainty in the magnitude of mortality and disability
The World Health Survey may provide a reliable and valid basis for assessing conflict related mortality and disability
Forecasting models may provide a plausible basis for assessing risk of conflict and thus prevention
Improved collaboration between political scientists and experts in public health would benefit measurement, prediction, and prevention of conflict related death
The impact of war on populations arises both from the direct effects of combat—namely, battle deaths—and from the indirect consequences of war, which may occur for several years after a conflict ends.1 Indirect effects of conflict on mortality can be formally …
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TL;DR: On the basis of population-attributable fractions, factors related to gender and relationship practices are shown to be most important, followed by experiences of childhood trauma, alcohol misuse and depression, low education, poverty, and involvement in gangs and fights with weapons.
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TL;DR: Application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in clinical practice and its implications for clinical practice are described.
Abstract: (2002). Application of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in clinical practice. Disability and Rehabilitation: Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 281-282.
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World Health Organization1, Imperial College London2, Harvard University3, Micronutrient Initiative4, Norwegian Institute of Public Health5, Carnegie Mellon University6, Mathematica Policy Research7, ICESI University8, Aga Khan University9, Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo10, Johns Hopkins University11
TL;DR: New evidence for both prevalence and absolute burden of vitamin A deficiency should be used to reconsider, and possibly revise, the list of priority countries for high-dose vitamin A supplementation such that a country's priority status takes into account both the prevalence of deficiency and the expected mortality benefits of supplementation.
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TL;DR: Evidence is emerging that chronic disease interventions could contribute to strengthening the capacity of health systems to deliver a comprehensive range of services-provided that such investments are planned to include these broad objectives.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Christopher J L Murray | 209 | 754 | 310329 |
Michael Marmot | 193 | 1147 | 170338 |
Didier Raoult | 173 | 3267 | 153016 |
Alan D. Lopez | 172 | 863 | 259291 |
Zulfiqar A Bhutta | 165 | 1231 | 169329 |
Simon I. Hay | 165 | 557 | 153307 |
Robert G. Webster | 158 | 843 | 90776 |
Ali H. Mokdad | 156 | 634 | 160599 |
Matthias Egger | 152 | 901 | 184176 |
Paolo Boffetta | 148 | 1455 | 93876 |
Jean Bousquet | 145 | 1288 | 96769 |
Igor Rudan | 142 | 658 | 103659 |
Holger J. Schünemann | 141 | 810 | 113169 |
Richard M. Myers | 134 | 496 | 137791 |
Majid Ezzati | 133 | 443 | 137171 |