Conflict epidemiology

Compiling or estimating the numbers of deaths caused during wars and other violent conflicts is a controversial subject.

[3] Data were collected by local Iraqi doctors from May 2006 to July 2006 and analysed by the faculty of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

The results of this study indicated that the burden of warfare on the Iraqi people in the region doubled from May 2006 to July 2006, and an excess of 600,000 deaths were suggested to be attributed to the onset of the war.

[7] Epidemiology of conflict suffers from a unique set of challenges that present clear barriers to our understandings of health outcomes in war torn areas.

[8] Furthermore, comprehensive access to affected parts of the population are often hindered, resulting in a lack of standardized data collection necessary to properly investigate health outcomes.