23 Citations
Human Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Detonations in New Delhi (India): Interdisciplinary Requirements in Triage Management
- MedicineInternational journal of environmental research and public health
- 2021
The human casualties from simulated nuclear detonation scenarios in New Delhi, India are analyzed, with a focus on the distribution of casualties in urban environments and the theoretical application…
Declining Public Health Protections within Autocratic Regimes: Impact on Global Public Health Security, Infectious Disease Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics
- Medicine, Political SciencePrehospital and Disaster Medicine
- 2020
It is time to re-address the pre-SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) global agendas calling for stronger strategic capacity, legal authority, support, and institutional status under World Health Organization (WHO) leadership granted by an International Health Regulations Treaty.
Opportunities Lost: Political Interference in the Systematic Collection of Population Health Data During and After the 2003 War in Iraq
- Political ScienceDisaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
- 2020
ABSTRACT The review of the article, “Developing a Public Health Monitoring System in a War-torn Region: A Field Report from Iraqi Kurdistan,” prompted the writing of this commentary. Decisions to…
Current Crises and Potential Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Challenges Facing Global Health or Global Public Health by a Different Name
- Political SciencePrehospital and Disaster Medicine
- 2019
The impact of major crises arising primarily from climate extremes, rapid unsustainable urbanization, and critical biodiversity losses are explored, and their potential for regional conflict is explored.
Revisiting the Battle of Solferino: The Worsening Plight of Civilian Casualties in War and Conflict
- Political ScienceDisaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
- 2019
This commentary captures the experience of the immediate care and transportation provided to military casualties of the Battle of Solferino in 1859 with civilian casualties recently documented in a Stanford-led study during the “golden hour” after injury in 13 conflicts from 1990 to 2017.
Molecular Detection and Epidemiological Features of Selected Bacterial, Viral, and Parasitic Enteropathogens in Stool Specimens from Children with Acute Diarrhea in Thi-Qar Governorate, Iraq
- MedicineInternational journal of environmental research and public health
- 2019
This study presents the first published molecular investigation of multiple enteropathogens among children <5 years of age in Iraq and provides the first report on detection and identification of floR, blaCARB-2, and mphA antimicrobial resistance genes in Salmonella isolated from children in the Middle East region.
Exploring how decision-making processes shape the TQM implementation in healthcare : comparative case studies in Iraqi hospitals
- Business, Medicine
- 2018
It is suggested that within the next few weeks the water quality in the Gulf of Mexico will improve, and the quality of the water in the surrounding area will also improve.
Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Tale of Biomedical Salvation?
- Art
- 2018
Abstract:This article examines the Iraqi novel Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013, English translation 2018) by Ahmed Saadawi. It explores Saadawi’s reimagining of the original creature from Mary…
How to estimate (and not to estimate) war deaths: A reply to van Weezel and Spagat
- Economics
- 2018
Stijn van Weezel and Michael Spagat (2017) have critiqued our 2011 report of mortality in Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion in this issue of Research & Politics. In this response, we make our…
Health Care Providers in War and Armed Conflict: Operational and Educational Challenges in International Humanitarian Law and the Geneva Conventions, Part I. Historical Perspective
- Political ScienceDisaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
- 2018
This historical perspective chronicles the transformation of war and armed conflicts from the Cold War to today, emphasizing the impact these events have had on humanitarian professionals and their struggle to adapt to increasing humanitarian, operational, and political challenges.
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- Political Science
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- Political Science
- 2009
The Bush administration’s decision-making process leading to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 has been singled out for its many shortcomings: failure of intelligence; lack of debate concerning options;…
State of Denial
- Political Science
- 2006
"Insurgents and terrorists retain the resources and capabilities to sustain and even increase current level of violence through the next year.'' This was the secret Pentagon assessment sent to the…
WikiLeaks and Iraq Body Count: the Sum of Parts May Not Add Up to the Whole—A Comparison of Two Tallies of Iraqi Civilian Deaths
- Political SciencePrehospital and Disaster Medicine
- 2013
Passive surveillance systems, widely seen as incomplete, may also be selective in the types of events detected in times of armed conflict, creating a skewed image of the mortality profile in Iraq.
The end of Iraq : how American incompetence created a war without end
- Political Science
- 2006
The invasion of Iraq by American, British and other coalition forces has indeed transformed the Middle East, but not as the Bush and Blair administrations had imagined. It is Iran, not Western-style…
Violence-related mortality in Iraq from 2002 to 2006.
- Political Science, MedicineThe New England journal of medicine
- 2008
Results from the Iraq Family Health Survey provide new evidence on mortality in Iraq and point to a massive death toll, only one of the many health and human consequences of an ongoing humanitarian crisis.
Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey
- Political Science, MedicineThe Lancet
- 2006
Media Coverage of Violent Deaths in Iraq: An Opportunistic Capture-Recapture Assessment
- Political SciencePrehospital and Disaster Medicine
- 2008
The vast majority of violent deaths in Iraq are not reported by the press, and efforts to monitor events by press coverage or reports of tallies similar to those reported in the press should be evaluated with the suspicion applied to any passive surveillance network: that it may be incomplete.
Reporting Iraqi civilian fatalities in a time of war
- Political Science, MedicineConflict and health
- 2009
A search of newspapers reports found that U.S. newspapers report more events and tallies related to Coalition deaths than Iraqi civilian deaths, although there are substantially different proportions amongst the different U.s. newspapers.
Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey
- Medicine, Political ScienceThe Lancet
- 2004