[PDF] Top 20 Armed conflict and child health

... High military expenditure in high-income countries has an adverse effect on child health in those countries. The USA has been discussing whether it can afford a universal health insurance scheme and ... See full document

... of conflict include death, physical and psychological trauma, and ...mental health, separation from family, displacement-related health risks, and the destruction of health, public ... See full document

... to armed conflict and targeted by governmental and nongovernmental ...combatants. Armed conflict directly and indirectly affects children ’ s physical, mental, and behavioral ...Pediatrics, ... See full document

... of armed conflict are complex and wide ...to armed conflict in Kashmir 70,000 lives arelost and 10,000 persons are ...The Armed conflict in Kashmir has disturbed the ... See full document

... children’s rights discourse. On the one hand, international human rights law protects juveniles. On the other hand, international human rights law emancipates and empowers juveniles. We need to do better at building a ... See full document

... of health services at all levels from the centre to the ...of health care institu- tions, from 1,098 in 1991 to 4,552 in 2007/2008 ...Government health facilities, such as health posts, ... See full document

... mental health outcome in people affected by mass violence ...the conflict, suggest- ing that this could be a general effect associated with living in areas of mass violence and not something clearly ... See full document

... To test the impact of health at birth on height later in life, I use information on birth size. Birth size is measured as being small at birth or not. This sheds light on the link between in utero experience and ... See full document

... Non-state armed groups opposing the government also carried out serious abuses including indiscriminate attacks against civilians, using child soldiers, kidnapping, unlawfully blocking humanitarian aid, and ... See full document

... to armed conflict; while 22 per cent (f=44) intact boys and 34 per cent (f=68) intact girls do not have nightmares related to armed ...to armed conflict. Bad dreams in connection with ... See full document

... in armed conflict to their bodily and mental ...of armed conflict may be physically intact, or perhaps ...However, child soldiers are likely to have suffered mental harm that will ... See full document

... Female circumcision or female genital mutilation (FGM) as is often called is practiced globally in all continents with over 100 women and girls at risk with the majority in Africa. FGM continues to be practiced in many ... See full document

... a conflict between a state and an oppressed people, which would otherwise be considered a non– international armed conflict; and the recognition of belligerency, which has now fallen into disuse, but ... See full document

... of child soldiers by international law, recent African conflicts have witnessed a persistence of this phenomenon, which is becoming ever more ...African armed conflicts is the use of young children, ... See full document

... of armed conflict on the mental, physical and emotional development of children directly or indirectly has impact on their ...prolonged armed conflict. In Mozambique alone, between 1981 and ... See full document

... Multiple armed conflicts throughout the world are profoundly impacting the physical and mental health of ...of child soldiers by ISIS, and the street violence in inner-city America are among the ... See full document

... the armed groups and have the former child soldier enter ...a child can ...especially child soldiers, in conflict is to erase any connection to family or the opposition force, this is ... See full document

... of armed conflict, while a war of self-defense may flagrantly violate the law of armed ...of armed force and the existence of armed ... See full document

... transnational armed conflicts give rise to additional and unique challenges, which derive cumulatively from their being both asymmetric and ...international armed conflicts, each state party is under ... See full document

... causing conflict there, external intervention where leaders pressure each other by supporting rebels in other countries, economic effects of conflict in neighboring areas ... See full document