tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Conflict and health: a paradigm shift in global health and human rights"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Conflict and health: a paradigm shift in global health and human rights. | Conflict and Health BioMed Central Open Access Editorial Conflict and health a paradigm shift in global health and human rights Sonal Singh1 James J Orbinski 2 and Edward J Mills 3 Address Wake-Forest University Health Sciences Winston-Salem North Carolina USA 2University of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada and 3Centre for International Health and Human Rights Studies North York Ontario Canada Email Sonal Singh - sosingh@ James J Orbinski - Edward J Mills - emills@ Corresponding author Published I March 2007 Received 13 February 2007 Conflict and Health 2007 1 1 doi 1752-1505-1 -1 Accepted 1 March 2007 This article is available from http content I I I 2007 Singh et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. We are not born equal. The possibility for equality must first be imagined and then actively created. The 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights 1 is one such imagining and it is far from being fully realized. The day before it was signed in Paris the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide 2 was passed. Its aspirations too are far from being fully realized. The practice of humanitarianism in war while having evolved since its formal inception in 1864 3 today risks being overwhelmed by both military and political agendas. Rapid advances in public health and modern medicine have increased life expectancy in many countries by several decades though widening inequalities between developed and developing countries and within various national groups continue to exist and in many cases flourish. In each of these domains however we are further along though by how much and in what direction is not always