Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá, Sumegha Asthana, Cristián Montenegro, Renzo Guinto et al.
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19AU : PleasenotethatCOVID 19hasbeendefinedasCoro ) pandemic, the Black Lives Matter and Women in Global Health movements, and ongoing calls to decolonise global health have all created space for uncomfortable but important conversations that reveal serious asymme...
Michael Toole
The number of refugees and internally displaced persons in need of protection and assistance has increased from 30 million in 1990 to more than 43 million today. War and civil strife have been largely responsible for this epidemic of mass migration that has affected almost every region of the world,...
Aaron Epstein, Robert B. Lim, Jay A. Johannigman, Charles J. Fox et al.
In the past 20 years of the Global War on Terror, the US has seen substantial improvements in its system of medical delivery in combat. However, throughout that conflict, enemy forces did not have parity with the weaponry, capability, or personnel of the US and allied forces. War against countries l...
Christian Gerlach
In this groundbreaking book Christian Gerlach traces the social roots of the extraordinary processes of human destruction involved in mass violence throughout the twentieth century. He argues that terms such as 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' are too narrow to explain the diverse motives and inter...
Shahaduz Zaman
An ethnographic exploration was done in an orthopaedic ward of a government teaching hospital in Bangladesh to understand the nature of hospital culture in the context of Bangladeshi society at large. Life and work in the ward result in a culture that is simultaneously created by its inhabitants and...
Carol R. Ember, Melvin Ember
Preface. General Concepts And Perspectives. Theoretical and Applied Issues in Cross-Cultural Health Research E.J. Sobo. Cognitive Medical Anthropology L.C. Garro. Critical Medical Anthropology M. Singer. Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives A. McElroy. Forensic Anthropology D.H. Ubelaker. Illnes...
Sofia Naveed, Khalid Manzoor Butt
The problem of Child Marriages is quite common and pervasivepractice and an instrumentof gender based violence against women and high population growth rate in South Asia including Pakistan. Though Child Marriages Restraint Act, 1929 (CMRA) got reformed in India and Bangladesh, but remained toothles...
Jürgen Scheffran, Michael Brzoska, Jasmin Kominek, P. Link et al.
Recent research has provided new insights into the relationship between climate change and violent conflict. In this review we compare the results, methodologies, and data applied in the peer-reviewed literature to recap the current state of the debate. While long-term historical studies suggest a c...
Dianna M. Blau, J Patrick Caneer, Rebecca Philipsborn, Shabir A. Madhi et al.
Mortality surveillance and cause of death data are instrumental in improving health, identifying diseases and conditions that cause a high burden of preventable deaths, and allocating resources to prevent these deaths. The Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) network uses a st...
Michael Toole
The number of refugees and internally displaced persons in need of protection and assistance has increased from 30 million in 1990 to more than 43 million today. War and civil strife have been largely responsible for this epidemic of mass migration that has affected almost every region of the world,...
Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin
Debarati Guha‐Sapir
The increase in the number of natural disasters and their impact on population is of growing concern to countries at risk and agencies involved in health and humanitarian action. The numbers of persons killed or disabled as a result of earthquakes, cyclones, floods and famines have reached record le...
Alan Whiteside, Alex de Waal, T. Gebre-Tensae
This article examines four accepted wisdoms about HIV/AIDS and African armies and in each case concludes that substantial revision is necessary in the light of emerging evidence. First, it appears that military populations do not necessarily have a higher prevalence of HIV than civilian populations....
Michelle Hynes, Ouahiba Sakani, Paul Spiegel, Nadine Cornier
CONTEXT: Little is known about the prevalence of maternal mortality in refugee camps for populations displaced by conflict, or about the factors contributing to such deaths. METHODS: Maternal Death Review Reports were used to analyze maternal deaths that occurred in 2008-2010 in 25 refugee camps in ...
Parveen Parmar, Rowen O. Jin, Meredith Walsh, Jennifer Scott
Fifty-two maternal deaths occurred between September 2017 and August 2018 in the Rohingya refugee camps in Ukhia and Teknaf Upazilas, Cox's Bazar District, Bangladesh. Behind every one of these lives lost is a complex narrative of historical, social, and political forces, which provide an important ...