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Table 1 Summaries of the 45 articles included in the review

From: Violence against healthcare in conflict: a systematic review of the literature and agenda for future research

Type

Citation

Geographical context

Thematic domain

Study Design or Approach

Research

Briody C. 2018. Review of Attacks on Health Care Facilities in Six Conflicts of the Past Three Decades

Global

Documentation of Attacks

Retrospective open source data analysis

Buckley CJ. 2019. An assessment of attributing public healthcare infrastructure damage in the Donbas five years after Euromaidan: implications for Ukrainian state legitimacy

Ukraine

Documentation of Attacks

Retrospective open source data analysis

Burnham GM. 2009. Doctors leaving 12 tertiary hospitals in Iraq, 2004–2007.

Iraq

Impact of Attacks

Retrospective registry analysis

Burnham G. 2012. Understanding the impact of conflict on health services in Iraq: information from 401 Iraqi refugee doctors in Jordan: Conflict and health services in Iraq

Iraq

Impact of Attacks

Qualitative interviews: Semi-structured approach

Chi, PC. 2015. Perceptions of the effects of armed conflict on maternal and reproductive health services and outcomes in Burundi and Northern Uganda: a qualitative study

Burundi and Northern Uganda

Impact of Attacks

Qualitative interviews

Chukwuma A. 2019. Armed conflict and maternal health care utilization: Evidence from the Boko Haram Insurgency in Nigeria

Nigeria

Impact of Attacks

Retrospective registry analysis

Cliff J. 1988. Health as a target: South Africa’s Destabilization of Mozambique

Mozambique

Impact of Attacks

Retrospective registry analysis

Elamein M. 2017. Attacks against health care in Syria, 2015–16: results from a real-time reporting tool.

Syria

Documentation of Attacks

Retrospective registry analysis

Fardousi N. 2019 Healthcare under siege: a qualitative study of health-worker responses to targeting and besiegement in Syria

Syria

Documentation of Attacks

Qualitative interviews: Semi-structured approach

Foghammar L. 2016 Challenges in researching violence affecting health service delivery in complex security environments

Global

Documentation of Attacks

Qualitative interviews and workshop discussions- Secondary analysis

Footer KHA. 2014. On the frontline of eastern Burma’s chronic conflict - Listening to the voices of local health workers.

Myanmar

Documentation of Attacks

Qualitative interviews: Semi-structured approach

Footer KHA. 2018. Qualitative accounts from Syrian health professionals regarding violations of the right to health, including use of chemical weapons, in opposition-held Syria

Syria

Documentation of Attacks

Qualitative interviews: Semi-structured approach

Haar RJ. 2014. Measurement of attacks and interferences with health care in conflict: validation of an incident reporting tool for attacks on and interferences with health care in eastern Burma

Myanmar

Documentation of Attacks

Qualitative interviews: Semi-structured approach

Haar RJ. 2018. Determining the scope of attacks on health in four governorates of Syria in 2016: Results of a field surveillance program

Syria

Documentation of Attacks

Retrospective registry analysis

Hemat H. 2017. Before the Bombing: High Burden of Traumatic Injuries in Kunduz Trauma Center, Kunduz, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Impact of Attacks

Retrospective registry analysis

Lafta RK. 2019. Violence against health-care workers in a conflict affected city

Iraq

Documentation of Attacks

Retrospective cohort survey study

Michlig GJ. 2019. Providing healthcare under ISIS: A qualitative analysis of healthcare worker experiences in Mosul, Iraq between June 2014 and June 2017

Iraq

Impact of Attacks

Qualitative interviews: Semi-structured approach

Namakula J. 2014. Living through conflict and post-conflict: experiences of health workers in northern Uganda and lessons for people-centered health systems

Uganda

Impact of Attacks

Qualitative interviews study - life history approach

Neuman M. 2014. “No patients, no problems:” Exposure to risk of medical personnel working in MSF projects in Yemen’s governorate of Amran

Yemen

Documentation of Attacks

Qualitative interviews

RI S. 2019. Attacks on health facilities as an indicator of violence against civilians in Syria: An exploratory analysis of open-source data.

Syria

Documentation of Attacks

Retrospective open source data analysis

Rytter MJH. 2006. Effects of armed conflict on access to emergency health care in Palestinian West Bank: systematic collection of data in emergency departments

Palestine

Impact of Attacks

Retrospective cohort survey study and registry analysis

Sousa c. 2011. Conflict, health care and professional perseverance: A qualitative study in the West Bank

Palestine

Impact of Attacks

Qualitative interviews and Participant observation

Sinha S. 2012. Vulnerabilities of Local Healthcare Providers in Complex Emergencies: Findings from the Manipur Micro-level Insurgency Database 2008–2009

India

Documentation of Attacks

Retrospective registry analysis

Trelles M. 2016. Averted health burden over 4 years at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Trauma Centre in Kunduz, Afghanistan, prior to its closure in 2015.

Afghanistan

Impact of Attacks

Retrospective registry analysis

Ud Din I. 2012. “How the Taliban undermined community healthcare in Swat, Pakistan.”

Pakistan

Documentation of Attacks

Qualitative interviews: Semi-structured approach

Wong CH. 2018. Ambulances under siege in Syria

Syria

Documentation of Attacks

Retrospective open source data analysis

Zimmerman HL. 2019 Attacks on health in conflict: generating attention in the modern information landscape

Global

Documentation of Attacks

Qualitative interviews and focus group discussions and systematic literature review

Human Rights Investigation

Crombé X. 2019. War Breaks Out: Interpreting Violence on Healthcare in the Early Stage of the South Sudanese Civil War

South Sudan

Documentation of Attacks

Mixed methods human rights investigation

Garfield RM. 1987. Health-Related Outcomes of War in Nicaragua

Nicaragua

Impact of Attacks

Mixed methods: Retrospective registry analysis and qualitative interviews

Geiger J. 1989. A new medical mission to El Salvador.

El Salvador

Documentation of Attacks

Mixed methods human rights investigation

Gellhorn A. 1983. Medical mission report on El Salvador

El Salvador

Documentation of Attacks

Mixed methods human rights investigation

Eisenberg C. 1983. Health and human rights in El Salvador

El Salvador

Impact Analysis

Mixed methods human rights investigation

Marton R. 2011. Human rights violations during Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip: 27 December 2008 to 19 January 2009.

Palestine

Documentation of Attacks

Mixed methods human rights investigation

Policy Analysis / Legal

Bouchet-Saulnier F. 2018. An Environment Conducive to mistakes: lessons learned in Kunduz

Afghanistan

Law and Human Rights

In depth case study

Foghammar L. 2014. Violence against healthcare in fragile systems

Global

Documentation

Incident review and policy analysis

Footer KHA. 2013. Human Rights Approach to Healthcare in Conflict

Global

Law and Human Rights

Legal or policy analysis

Gates S. 2017. Patterns of Attacks on Medical Personnel and Facilities: SDG 3 meets SDG 16

Global

Impact of Attacks

Legal or policy analysis

Mclean D. 2019. Medical care in armed conflict: Perpetrator discourse in historical perspective

Global

Impact of Attacks

Historical case study analysis

Terry F. 2013. Violence against health care: insights from Afghanistan, Somalia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Afghanistan, DRC and Somalia

Methods description

Incident review and policy analysis

Reviews

Afzal MH. 2019. A scoping review of the wider and long-term impacts of attacks on health in conflict zones

Global

Impact of Attacks

Scoping review

Boi-Karroum L. 2018. Health Care Workers in the setting of the “Arab Spring”: a scoping review for the Lancet-AUB Commission on Syria

MENA

Documentation

Scoping review

Fouad FM. 2017. Health workers and the weaponisation of health care in Syria: a preliminary inquiry for The Lancet-American University of Beirut Commission on Syria

Syria

Documentation

Mixed methods: Literature review and qualitative stakeholder interviews

Redwood-Campbell LJ. 2014. Health care workers in danger zones: a special report on safety and security in a changing environment

Global

Documentation

Qualitative review

Rubenstein LS. 2010. Responsibility for protection of medical workers and facilities in armed conflict

Global

Documentation

Qualitative review