Citation

Thoms ON, Ron J. Confl. Health 2007; 1: 11.

Affiliation

Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. jron@connect.carleton.ca.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group - BMC)

DOI

10.1186/1752-1505-1-11

PMID

18005430

PMCID

PMC2170435

Abstract

Although epidemiology is increasingly contributing to policy debates on issues of conflict and human rights, its potential is still underutilized. As a result, this article calls for greater collaboration between public health researchers, conflict analysts and human rights monitors, with special emphasis on retrospective, population-based surveys. The article surveys relevant recent public health research, explains why collaboration is useful, and outlines possible future research scenarios, including those pertaining to the indirect and long-term consequences of conflict; human rights and security in conflict prone areas; and the link between human rights, conflict, and International Humanitarian Law.

Language: en