Commentary: Ensuring health statistics in conflict are evidence-based

Leslie F. Roberts

doi:10.1186/1752-1505-4-10

Commentary: Ensuring health statistics in conflict are evidence-based

Leslie F. Roberts

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The author argues that measuring mortality in conflict settings is fraught with limitations which mostly result in under-estimation of mortality. Some recent publications on this subject have been based upon convenient surveillance processes, or even press reports. The author calls for vigilance against such studies and argues that war related surveillance-based mortality estimates should include measures of sensitivity and representativeness.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	10
Journal	Conflict and Health
Volume	4
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-1505-4-10
State	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes

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Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health(social science)

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