tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Coming together to document mortality in conflict situations: proceedings of a symposium"

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: Coming together to document mortality in conflict situations: proceedings of a symposium. | Conflict and Health BioMed Central Meeting report Coming together to document mortality in conflict situations proceedings of a symposium Ruwan Ratnayake Olivier Degomme and Debarati Guha-Sapir Open Access Address WHO Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters Université catholique de Louvain School of Public Health 30 94 Clos Chapelle aux Champs 1200 Brussels Belgium Email Ruwan Ratnayake - rratnaya@ Olivier Degomme - Debarati Guha- Sapir - Corresponding author Published 25 February 2009 Received 8 January 2009 Conflict and Health 2009 3 2 doi 1752-1505-3-2 Accepted 25 February 2009 This article is available from http content 3 1 2 2009 Ratnayake 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. Abstract The use of epidemiology in documenting the mortality experience in complex emergencies has become pervasive in humanitarian practice. Recent assessments in Iraq and Darfur have provoked much discussion on the assessment of mortality in scientific and policy spheres. In this context the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative held an inter-disciplinary symposium to examine the topic among epidemiologists demographers forensic scientists and legal and human rights investigators. We aimed to strengthen the scientific understanding of mortality estimation by reviewing progress across fields and building inter-disciplinary bridges. We report on the presentations and discussions here. Introduction The use of epidemiology in documenting the mortality experience of complex emergencies has become pervasive across humanitarian practice. Although used .