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ArticleConflict and health2010

Commentary: Ensuring health statistics in conflict are evidence-based.

Leslie F Roberts

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Article in Conflict and health, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Childhood mortality during conflicts in Africa.Lancet (London, England) · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Leslie F RobertsProgram on Forced Migration and Health, Columbia University. lfr2102@columbia.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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.

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PMID20444287
PMCPMC2874520

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