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Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:32
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The impact of decentralisation on health systems in fragile and post-conflict countries: a narrative synthesis of six case studies in the Indo-Pacific
A health system has three key stakeholders, the State—at national and subnational levels—the health service providers and the citizens. In most settings and especially in peacetime, these stakeholders are typi...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:31 -
Health system evaluation in conflict-affected countries: a scoping review of approaches and methods
Strengthening health systems in conflict-affected settings has become increasingly professionalised. However, evaluation remains challenging and often insufficiently documented in the literature. Many, particu...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:30 -
The challenges of international collaboration in conflict and health research: experience from the Research for Health in Conflict-Middle East and North Africa (R4HC-MENA) partnership
Healthcare is a basic human right extending across all humanitarian contexts, including conflict. Globally, two billion people are living under conditions of insecurity and violent armed conflict with a conseq...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:29 -
The crisis of maternal and child health in Afghanistan
The Taliban takeover in August 2021 brought global economic sanctions, economic collapse, and draconian restrictions on women’s freedom of movement, work, political participation, and education. This study exa...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:28 -
Assessment of the WHO non-communicable diseases kit for humanitarian emergencies in South Sudan: a retrospective, prospective, observational study
The WHO Non-Communicable Diseases Kit (NCDK) was developed to support care for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in humanitarian settings. Targeting primary healthcare, each kit contains medicines and supplies ...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:27 -
Perilous medicine in Tigray: a systematic review
The war in Tigray, North Ethiopia which started in November 2020, has destroyed decades of the region’s healthcare success. There is some emerging published evidence on attacks on health care in the region, an...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:26 -
Burial workers’ perceptions of community resistance and support systems during an Ebola outbreak in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: a qualitative study
Community Health Workers (CHWs) provide vital services during disease outbreaks. Appropriate burials of those who died from an infectious disease outbreak is a critical CHW function to prevent infection and di...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:25 -
The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in humanitarian settings: epidemiology, health service utilization, and health care seeking behavior in Bangui and surrounding areas, Central African Republic
Despite increasing evidence on COVID-19, few studies have been conducted in humanitarian settings and none have investigated the direct and indirect effects of the pandemic in the Central African Republic. We ...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:24 -
Area level indirect exposure to extended conflicts and early childhood anthropometric outcomes in India: a repeat cross-sectional analysis
Protracted, internal conflicts with geographic variations within countries, are an important understudied community exposure for adverse child health outcomes.
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:23 -
Armed conflict and household food insecurity: evidence from war-torn Tigray, Ethiopia
Exposure to armed conflicts result in strongly adverse and often irreversible short- and long-term effects which may transmit across generations. Armed conflicts directly cause food insecurity and starvation b...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:22 -
Cross-sectional survey in Central African Republic finds mortality 4-times higher than UN statistics: how can we not know the Central African Republic is in such an acute humanitarian crisis?
CAR is one of the poorest countries in the world. While UN statistics suggest that there is no health emergency in the country, two recently published mortality surveys contradict this. Moreover, recent accusa...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:21 -
Localisation of digital health tools used by displaced populations in low and middle-income settings: a scoping review and critical analysis of the Participation Revolution
Forced displacement is a crucial determinant of poor health. With 31 people displaced every minute worldwide, this is an important global issue. Addressing this, the Participation Revolution workstream from th...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:20 -
Organizational peer support to enable rehabilitating surgical services in Northern Ethiopia
The ongoing violent conflict in Northern Ethiopia has caused displacement, death, and destruction. Health services infrastructure became one of the primary victims of the war, leaving millions unable to access...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:19 -
The impact of social capital and social environmental factors on mental health and flourishing: the experiences of asylum-seekers in France
There is growing interest on how social capital and related social environmental factors impact overall population health and well-being. The nature of asylum-seekers’ social environment alters once they migra...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:18 -
Psychosocial model of burnout among humanitarian aid workers in Bangladesh: role of workplace stressors and emotion coping
While trauma exposure is an established predictor of poor mental health among humanitarian aid workers (HAWs), less is known about the role of psychosocial work-related factors. This study aims to establish a ...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:17 -
Inferring the impact of humanitarian responses on population mortality: methodological problems and proposals
Reducing excess population mortality caused by crises due to armed conflict and natural disasters is an existential aim of humanitarian assistance, but the extent to which these deaths are averted in different...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:16 -
Childhood exposure to armed conflict and nutritional health outcomes in Nigeria
Armed conflicts are associated with an increased risk of food insecurity, the leading cause of malnutrition in low-and-middle-income countries. Multiple studies have uncovered significant influences of childho...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:15 -
Provider-initiated HIV testing uptake and socio-economic status among women in a conflict zone in the Central African Republic: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study
In the Central African Republic (CAR), HIV/AIDS is the main cause of death in women aged 15–49 years. Increased testing coverage is essential in prevention of HIV/AIDS, especially in areas where conflict hinde...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:14 -
Deferral of elective surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on Palestinian patients: a cross-sectional study
During the Covid-19 epidemic, the increased number of people seeking medical attention worsened hospital shortages. This shortage required reallocating the workforce, personal protective equipment (PPE), medic...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:13 -
Evolution and lessons from an integrated service delivery network in North West Syria
Northwest Syria (NWS) is a complex and extremely fragile operating environment, with more than 2.8 million people needing humanitarian assistance. To support a common standard of care delivery and enable coord...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:12 -
The predictors of food security and dietary diversity among internally displaced persons’ children (6–59 months) in Bamenda health district, Cameroon
Malnutrition remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality amongst children in displaced settings. Nutrition at this stage is crucial for the growth and development of the child. It is estimated that 41 mil...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:11 -
Prevalence and multi-level factors associated with acute malnutrition among children aged 6–59 months from war affected communities of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, 2021: a cross-sectional study
Armed conflicts greatly affect the health, nutrition, and food security of conflict affected settings particularly children. However, no empirical data exist regarding context specific factors contributing tow...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:10 -
Sustainability of health services in refugee hosting districts: a qualitative study of health services in three west Nile refugee hosting districts, Uganda
Humanitarian health assistance programmes have expanded from temporary approaches addressing short-term needs to providing long-term interventions in emergency settings. Measuring sustainability of humanitaria...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:9 -
Correction to: Determinants of health among people who use illicit drugs in the conflict-affected countries of Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar: a systematic review of epidemiological evidence
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:8 -
Ensuring equity in mental health and psychosocial support during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Populations affected by armed conflict and other humanitarian crises are at elevated risk for mental health problems. While the COVID-19 pandemic has had broadly deleterious effects on livelihoods, economic we...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:7 -
Usefulness of disease surveillance data in enhanced early warning of the cholera outbreak in Southwest Cameroon, 2018
This study assessed the timeliness and completeness of disease surveillance data for early warning of the cholera outbreak during the socio-political crisis of Southwest Cameroon in 2018. It determined how rou...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:6 -
Lessons identified from initiating a thalassaemia programme in a conflict setting: a case study from northeast Syria
Thalassaemia affects many families in Northeast Syria, an area devastated by over a decade of conflict which has significantly impacted their health system. People with thalassaemia require holistic multidisci...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:5 -
Disruption to water supply and waterborne communicable diseases in northeast Syria: a spatiotemporal analysis
In Syria, disruption to water and sanitation systems, together with poor access to vaccination, forced displacement and overcrowding contribute to increases in waterborne diseases (WBDs). The aim of this study...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:4 -
Underestimating attacks: comparing two sources of publicly-available data about attacks on health care in 2017
Attacks on health care represent an area of growing international concern. Publicly available data are important in documenting attacks, and are often the only easily accessible data source. Data collection pr...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:3 -
The lived experience of patients with conflict associated injuries whose wounds are affected by antimicrobial resistant organisms: a qualitative study from northwest Syria
For those with severe conflict-associated wounds which are affected by antimicrobial resistant (AMR) organisms, health systems during protracted conflict are often ill-equipped to respond to their needs. In th...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:2 -
Substance (mis)use among refugees as a matter of social ecology: insights into a multi-site rapid assessment in Germany
Previous research concluded that substance (mis)use is increasing among forcibly displaced populations. Nevertheless, little research has been conducted within a social ecological framework aimed at identifyin...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2023 17:1 -
Facilitating hand hygiene in displacement camps during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative assessment of a novel handwashing stand and hygiene promotion package
Handwashing with soap is critical for the prevention of diarrhoeal diseases and outbreak related diseases, including interrupting the transmission of COVID-19. People living in large displacement settings are ...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:65 -
Telemedicine interventions in six conflict-affected countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region: a systematic review
The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated the use of telemedicine in both high and low resource settings however its use has preceded this, particularly in conflict-affected settings. Several countries in the WHO Ea...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:64 -
Adult mortality before and during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in nine communities of Yemen: a key informant study
Widespread armed conflict has affected Yemen since 2014. To date, the mortality toll of seven years of crisis, and any excess due to the COVID-19 pandemic, are not well quantified. We attempted to estimate pop...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:63 -
Ageism, an invisible social determinant of health for older Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a service providers’ perspective
Older refugees face particular challenges because their health and social needs are largely overlooked in humanitarian programmes, policies and research. The few studies available have shown that older refugee...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:62 -
“Older people tend to be invisible”: a qualitative study exploring the needs and inclusion of older Syrian refugees in the context of compounding crises in host country, Lebanon
Older Syrian refugees in Lebanon are a marginalized population with under-recognized health needs. The inclusivity of this population within the humanitarian response is poorly understood. This study aims to i...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:61 -
A literature review exploring how health systems respond to acute shocks in fragile and conflict-affected countries
Understanding how health systems respond to shocks has become a pressing need to strengthen response efforts. With already fragmented and disrupted health services, fragile and conflict affected [FCA] countrie...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:60 -
How structural and symbolic violence during resettlement impacts the social and mental wellbeing of forced migrant women: the lived experiences of Arabic speaking survivors of IPV resettled in Melbourne, Australia
Forced migrant women experience high levels of violence across their journeys and violence can be characterised as having three overarching forms: structural, symbolic, and interpersonal. It is important to un...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:59 -
Putative juvenile terrorists: the relationship between multiple traumatization, mental health, and expectations for reintegration among Islamic State recruited adolescent and young adult fighters
In several conflicts worldwide children are recruited as fighters in irregular forces. These children need to be reintegrated into the society after the conflict. However, concurrent to various reservations in...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:58 -
An analysis of humanitarian and health aid alignment over a decade (2011–2019) of the Syrian conflict
The 11 years of the devastating conflict in Syria resulted in more than 874,000 deaths, and in more than thirteen million refugees and internally displaced people (UNHCR, Syrian refugee crisis: aid, statistics...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:57 -
Conflict, epidemic and faith communities: church-state relations during the fight against Covid-19 in north-eastern DR Congo
Understanding and improving access to essential services in (post)-conflict settings requires paying particular attention to the actors who occupy the space left ‘empty’ by weak or deficient State institutions...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:56 -
Provision of trauma care in asymmetric warfare: a conceptual framework to support the decision to implement frontline care services
The emerging trends of asymmetric and urban warfare call for a revision of the needs and the way in which frontline trauma care is provided to affected population. However, there is no consensus on the process...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:55 -
Measuring results of humanitarian action: adapting public health indicators to different contexts
Humanitarian crises represent a significant public health risk factor for affected populations exacerbating mortality, morbidity, disabilities, and reducing access to and quality of health care. Reliable and t...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:54 -
Inclusive education in a refugee camp for children with disabilities: How are school setting and children’s behavioral functioning related?
Many refugee children face challenges accessing education, but refugee children with disabilities are especially vulnerable to exclusion from school environments as well as social settings. Mainstreaming is co...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:53 -
Exposure to conflict and child health outcomes: evidence from a large multi-country study
Previous research has consistently found evidence of poor health outcomes among children living in conflict areas. However, the methodological focus of these studies has largely been on case studies, chart or ...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:52 -
Community-based referral transportation system for accessing emergency obstetric services in the Rohingya refugee camp during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: facilitators and barriers through beneficiaries’ and providers’ lens using a mixed-method design
Delays in seeking timely maternity care from health care professionals are crucial to address among the Rohingya population where many preventable pregnancy-related deaths occur within the camps when care is n...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:51 -
Improving HIV medication adherence among forced migrants living with HIV: a qualitative study of refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia
Adherence to medication regimens is essential to decrease morbidity/mortality and increase life expectancy among HIV positive persons on Highly Active Anti-retroviral Therapy (HAART). This study was born in re...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:50 -
A scoping review of FGM in humanitarian settings: an overlooked phenomenon with lifelong consequences
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is widely recognized as a human rights violation. Little is known about FGM rates and practices in humanitarian settings, and about the impact of crisis on the drivers and conse...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:49 -
COVID-19 vaccination in the Gaza Strip: a cross-sectional study of vaccine coverage, hesitancy, and associated risk factors among community members and healthcare workers
The Gaza Strip, like other settings of complex humanitarian emergencies, faces immense challenges in vaccinating its population against COVID-19. This study was conducted in October 2021 among Gaza’s adult pop...
Citation: Conflict and Health 2022 16:48
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