War, Terrorism, and Public Health
@article{Sidel2003WarTA,
title={War, Terrorism, and Public Health},
author={Victor W. Sidel and Barry S. Levy},
journal={The Journal of Law, Medicine \& Ethics},
year={2003},
volume={31},
pages={516 - 523}
}Kill one person, and it is considered murder. Kill ten thousand person, and it is considered foreign policy.-Anonymous
19 Citations
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Commentary: Guard against war: an expanded role for public health.
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This excellent summary and analysis of the role of public health workers in documenting the medical and public health consequences of the 1991–1995 war in Croatia, noting the 220 articles in the…
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This article suggests that cooperation between public health and police or intelligence services is actually necessary and recommends advance guidelines and policies, legal clarification, combined multidisciplinary training, and mutual trust and understanding among public health, law enforcement, and intelligence professionals, in order to protect the integrity of essential services and the valid concerns of the public health system.
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Guard against the oblivion: a role of public health in war.
- Political ScienceEuropean journal of public health
- 2006
Not to remember means to side with the executioners against its victims; not to remember means to kill the victims a second time; not to remember means to become an accomplice of the enemy. On the…
NGO interventions: influences on terrorist activity
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ABSTRACT Terrorist organizations (TOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) often advocate for the same oppressed communities. Both TOs and NGOs require the support of these constituents and the…
Positive and Negative Peace as Predictors of Pandemic Preparedness: Evidence from a Micro‐ and Macro‐Level Investigation During the Onset of the COVID‐19 Pandemic
- Political SciencePolitical psychology
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The link between peace and pandemic preparedness is investigated, advancing the literatures on negative and positive peace and governments' crisis preparedness as well as crisis relief efforts to suggest that by promoting peace, governments and the international community could potentially become better prepared to handle future pandemics and other crises.
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Core components of the public health management of a terrorism attack using smallpox are vaccination (ring vaccination and mass vaccination), adverse event monitoring, confirmed and suspected smallpox case management, contact management, identifying, tracing, monitoring contacts, and quarantine.
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