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War's toll on public health
A University of Washington conference on global health broadens its scope to take in war's toll on the public's health.
GLOBAL-HEALTH leaders in Seattle this weekend lend much-needed attention and focus to one aspect of war going largely unnoticed: its impact on civilians.
Vigorous reporting and attention has yielded an impressive chronicling of war's toll on soldiers. Sobering statistics about physical and psychological suffering provide a blueprint for military spending on health care, from active-duty personnel to veterans.
A comparable effort on the civilian side of war does not exist. Public policy and funding has yet to grasp war's heavy toll on non-soldiers as a public-health problem.
more....
A University of Washington conference on global health broadens its scope to take in war's toll on the public's health.
GLOBAL-HEALTH leaders in Seattle this weekend lend much-needed attention and focus to one aspect of war going largely unnoticed: its impact on civilians.
Vigorous reporting and attention has yielded an impressive chronicling of war's toll on soldiers. Sobering statistics about physical and psychological suffering provide a blueprint for military spending on health care, from active-duty personnel to veterans.
A comparable effort on the civilian side of war does not exist. Public policy and funding has yet to grasp war's heavy toll on non-soldiers as a public-health problem.
more....
