Health
Health actors can play a significant role in conflict contexts: from involvement in negotiating access to health care for particular communities to providing holistic, rehabilitative treatment for victims. In stabilisation environments, the provision of effective health services by the state can also contribute to the political goal of strengthening the relationship between the government and local communities.
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WHO-PAHO Guidelines for the Use of Foreign Field Hospitals
| Date added: | 10/03/2011 |
Institution: World Health Organisation and Pan American Health Organisation
Publication Date: 2003
Keywords: Health, Planning
Read Full Text Here: http://www.paho.org/english/dd/ped/FieldHospitalsFolleto.pdf
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This paper highlights that dispatching Foreign Field Hospitals (FFH) to disaster and conflict affected countries where health systems have broken down has not always had the desired effect. This outlines critical questions that should be addressed when considering the use of military or civilian FFHs. It will be of use to those considering the use of FFHs in emergency situations, medical practitioners and health service planners.
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Both natural and complex disasters may produce a massive number of casualties that outstrips the response capability of the local health ca... Read More
Study exploring the evidence relating Health and Conflict interventions and outcomes
| Date added: | 17/06/2011 |
Author:Gordon et al.
Publication Date: 2010
Keywords: Health, Stabilisation
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This literature review was commissioned by the UK Government’s Health and Conflict Group comprising the Ministry of Defence, Department of Health, The Department for International Development and Stabilisation Unit). Though it does not reflect HMG Policy, it is a core document for anyone interested in health and conflict and looks at key issues central to the UK Government approach. It is an excellent empirical starting point for personnel interested in examining the links between health and stabilisation and the key issues central to the UK Government approach.
Promoting Health Equity In Conflict-Affected Fragile States
| Date added: | 02/03/2012 |
Author: Ranson, K. Poletti, T. Bornemisza, O. Sondorp, E.
Institution: The Conflict and Health Programme - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Publication Date: Feb, 2007
Related Category: Health
Read Full Text Here: http://www.who.int/social_determinants/resources/csdh_media/promoting_equity_conflict_2007_en.pdf
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This paper was written by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for the Health Systems Knowledge Network of the World Health Organisation Commission on the Social Determinants of Health.
There is currently no link between 'health equity' and 'health development in fragile states', and a lack of data from conflict-affected fragile states means that it ... Read More
HIV/AIDS, Security and Conflict: New Realities, New Responses
| Date added: | 28/02/2011 |
Author: de Waal, et al.
Institution: AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative (ASCI)
Publication Date: 2010
Keywords: Health, Stabilisation
Read Full Text Here: http://www.ssrc.org/workspace/images/crm/new_publication_3/%7Be2090d2b-72a8-de11-9d32-001cc477ec70%7D.pdf
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This document discusses how HIV/AIDS can damage the operational capacity of armed forces and law enforcement agencies, yet has not been prioritised in international conflict assessments or response. It highlights how disease and poor health can undermine the governance, security and community level capacities which are fundamental to improving stability. Therefore the document stresses the need to understand how health insecu... Read More
Health Systems Strengthening in Fragile Contexts
| Date added: | 10/03/2011 |
Institution: Health and Fragile States Network
Publication Date: 2009
Keywords: Health, Conflict
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The report emphasises the importance of international organisations supporting health system strengthening - a holistic approach to health systems rather than isolated adhoc projects - in complex fragile and conflict affected states where governance institutions are weak and resources limited. It highlights the value of community involvement, diverse partnerships across the system, and sustained funding. The report also provides practical case studies from Afghanistan to Somalia, Yemen an... Read More
Health System Reconstruction: can it contribute to state-building?
| Date added: | 13/03/2012 |
Author: Eldon, J. Waddington, C. Hadi, Y.
Institution: HLSP Institute
Publication Date: Oct, 2008
Related Categories: Health
Read Full Text Here: http://www.hlsp.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=W1pYa3WBx7Q%3D&tabid=1793&mid=3480
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This paper aims to determine whether the reconstruction of health services contributes to state-building through the improvement in state/society relationships. It was funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), conducted by the HLSP Institute and commissioned by the Health and Fragile States Network.
The Health and Fragile States Network was constituted in June 2007 during a meeting at DFID
on health and fragile states. Its manda... Read More
Health Care in Danger: A sixteen-country study
| Date added: | 24/02/2012 |
Author: Coupland, R. Wille, C. Taback, N. Regard, S.
Institution: International Committee of the Red Cross
Publication Date: July, 2011
Keywords: Health
Read Full Text Here: http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/reports/report-hcid-16-country-study-2011-08-10.pdf
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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was established in 1863, and is a neutral organisation committed to providing humanitarian help for people affected by conflict and armed violence, and to promote the laws that protect victims of war. This document has been written in response to a growing concern over the increasing violence that is directed towards health-care personnel, vehicles and infrastructure, and its content is drawn from the an... Read More
Healing Africa? Reflections on the peace building role of a health-based NGO operating in EasternDRC
| Date added: | 17/06/2011 |
Author: N. D’Errico, C. Wake and R. Wake
Institution: Medicine, Conflict and Survival
Publication Date: 2010
Keywords: Health, Conflict, Community Engagement
Read Full Text Here: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~db=all~content=a923245201~fulltext=713240930
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The study reviews the potential contribution of health initiatives to peace building objectives, through the case study of an NGO, HEAL Africa, which provides emergency health care in the Democratic Republic Congo. The paper argues that the role of health initiatives in preventing conflict, treating symptoms of conflict and in long term rehabilitation are often overlooked, but also warns of the risks of over emphasising the con... Read More
Civil-military coordination during humanitarian health action
| Date added: | 02/03/2012 |
Institution: World Health Organisation Inter-Agency Standing Committee Global Health Cluster
Publication Date: February 2011
Keywords: Health
Read Full Text Here: http://www.who.int/hac/global_health_cluster/about/policy_strategy/ghc_position_paper_civil_military_coord_2_feb2011.pdf
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The Global Health Cluster is a group of more than 30 international humanitarian health organisations which are led by the World Health Organisation (WHO), and are working together to establish shared solutions to humanitarian health action.
This document has been written to provide country-level health clusters with guidance that will help them to apply civil-military coordination principles in humanitarian health operatio... Read More
Armed conflict women and girls who are pregnant, infants and children; a neglected public health cha
| Date added: | 02/03/2012 |
Author: David Southall
Institution: Early Human Development
Publication Date: August 2011
Related Categories: Health, Conflict
Read full text here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378378211002805
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This document has been written with the perspective that armed conflict represents a public health challenge. It draws on a number of sources of data to develop its arguments including the databases of the Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers and the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and International Peace Research Institute, Oslo.
Although the document appears to focus on all demographics except men and non-pregnant women, this belies the scope of this paper, the approach of which is well aligned with... Read More