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Assignment: Report on public health costs of a current or past armed conrflict
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ICPR 281 : Violence and Public Health: Public Health Costs of Armed Conflicts (HC)

Assignment: Report on public health costs of a current or past armed conrflict:

Background Information:

- what are the surrounding issues?

Encyclopedia of violence, peace, & conflict

Publisher: San Diego : Academic Press, c1999.

See the article by Zwi, A., Ugalde, A., Richards, P. Effects of war and political violence on health services. Access the fulltext by first logging into Blackboard and then click to reach the folder with PDFs in the Library Resources section.

The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children

A groundbreaking report (1996) by Graca Machel.

World Health Report 2007. Chapter 2.

World Health Organization. The world health report 2007 : a safer future : global public health security in the 21st century. Chapter 2. Threats to public health security.See section on "Public health consequences of conflict" and cited references.

World Report on Violence and Health (2002). Chapter 8.

Krug EG et al., eds. World report on violence and health. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2002. Chapter 8. Collective Violence.

Reference Works on Armed Conflicts:

- country reports & political analysis

International armed conflict since 1945

Author: Tillema, Herbert K.

Publisher: Boulder : Westview Press, 1991.

International Crisis Group

Organization with staff on five continents to research, analyze and report on deadly conflicts. The site provides reports, briefing papers, and news updates.

Political handbook of the world

Publisher: Washington, DC : CQ Press,

Provider: CQPress

This authoritative reference book provides detailed information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system. International organizations, from the African Union to the World Trade Organization, are profiled as well. Good source for information on current events, elections, political history, and more.

Regional guide to international conflict and management from 1945 to 2003

Author: Bercovitch, Jacob. Fretter, Judith.

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, c2004.

"Efforts against terrorism, border skirmishes, ethnic clashes, civil strife, separatist movements, and the increasing presence of peacekeeping forces throughout hot spots in the world have increased the importance of understanding international conflict. Regional Guide to International Conflict and Management from 1945 to 2003 summarizes and analyzes international conflicts as individual and as regional events, illuminating their causes, relationships, patterns, and management." "The 343 conflicts at the heart of the book are grouped by regions - Africa, the Americas, East Asia and the Pacific, Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Middle East - to highlight the patterns and consequences of conflict in those areas."--BOOK JACKET.

Conflict Data:

A Beginner's Guide to Conflict Data

Eck, Kristina. A Beginner's Guide to Conflict Data: Finding and Using the Right Dataset. Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University. UCDP Paper #1, December 2005.

Armed Conflict and Its International Dimensions, 1946-2004

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Harbom, L., Wallensteen, P. Armed Conflict and Its International Dimensions, 1946-2004. Journal of Peace Research, 42(5): 623-635, 2005.

Armed Conflict, 1989-2006

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Harbom, L., Wallensteen, P. Armed Conflict, 1989-2006. Journal of Peace Research, 44(5): 623-634, 2007.

Armed Conflicts Report 2007

From the ecumenical Ploughshares Project 1976

detailed descriptions of all current armed conflicts, updated annually;
descriptions of recently ended armed conflicts; and
maps depicting causes and consequences of armed conflict.

Conflict Deaths and Country Case Studies (The Small Arms Survey)

Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. The staff works closely with a worldwide network of researchers and partners.

Correlates of War Datasets

The Correlates of War Project maintains and extends data that was first compiled by in 1963 by J. David Singer, a political scientist at the University of Michigan. The goal is "not just to measure the temporal and spatial variation in war but rather to identify factors that would systematically explain this variation" [Project History page].

The set "Inter-State War Data" includes statistics for 1816-1997 covering such categories battle deaths and length of war. ALL of COW's data sets can be freely downloaded.

Doctors Without Borders

Search for Activity Reports in countries in armed conflict

Major Armed Conflicts (2006)

Lindberg, S., Melvin, N. Major Armed Conflicts. In: SIPRI Yearbook 2007: Disarmament and International Security. (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2007), pp. 55-78. First sign in to Blackboard, then click on link to access the fulltext of this chapter.

United States Military Casualty Information - DoD

Also check out the guide Navigating the Military Internet from the Naval Postgraduate School Dudley Library, an official U.S. Navy website.

Public Health Statistics:

CDC. International Health Data Reference Guide, 11th ed. (2003)

From the Preface: This 11th edition of the International Health Data Reference Guide provides information collected in 2003 on the [most recent] availability of selected national vital, hospital, health personnel resources, and population-based health survey statistics [from government and official agencies of 40 nations.]

Health Data Tools and Statistics

A resource list From the Partners in Information Access for Public Health Workforce.

A New Dataset on Infant Mortality Rates, 1816-2002.

Abouharb, M. R. A New Dataset on Infant Mortality Rates, 1816-2002. Journal of Peace Research, 44(6):743-754, 2007. Access the fulltext by first logging into Blackboard and then click to reach the folder with PDFs in the Library Resources section.

Population and Health in Developing Countries, Volume 1: Population, health, and survival at IN-DEPTH Sites

This book presents new and critical data recorded at the INDEPTH research siteshealth and demographic status of their local populations. Starting with a description of the basic methods used, this volume summarizes mortality data, compares mortality patterns at INDEPTH sites (with information on 1 billion people in the southern hemisphere), and reports on mortality patterns for Africa. Each INDEPTH site has contributed a chapter in which it describes itself and the data it is contributing.

UNHCR's Statistical Online Population Database

For analysis and comparison of standardized data on UNHCR's population of concern at country, regional, and global levels. Detailed information on country of asylum and origin is available, for some population categories going back to 1951, the year UNHCR was created.

The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER)

The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) serves as an essential instrument for the rapid and accurate dissemination of epidemiological information on cases and outbreaks of diseases under the International Health Regulations and on other communicable diseases of public health importance, including emerging or re-emerging infections.

World Health Report statistical annex

International data collected on morbidity and mortality broken down by age, sex, and cause. From this page you can access all other data sets and publications published by WHO.

Databases:

- search for morbidity, mortality, nutritional, refugee and psychological data associated with your particular conflict

LexisNexis academic

Provider: LN

Full-text of thousands of newspapers, magazines, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials. Includes NY Times (1980-current). This is a useful source of information for ferreting out effects of combat trauma such as domestic violence committed by soldiers when they return home.

PAIS international

Provider: CSA

Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, intergovernmental, and private organizations reports. Areas covered include political, economic, social and public policy issues. Covers 1915-present.

PsycINFO

Provider: CSA

Provides abstracts of journals, books, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations. Areas covered include psychology and related disciplines, sociology, linguistics, education, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, and anthropology. Covers 1887-present.

PubMed

Provider: NCBI

Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. Some especially helpful titles indexed by PubMed are: International Journal of Epidemiology, BMJ, Lancet and JAMA.

Web of science

Provider: ISI

Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work. Coverage varies.