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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2014

Living conditions in Iraq: 10 years after the US-led invasion.

S Rawaf, S Hassounah, E Dubois, B Abdalrahman, M Raheem, H Jamil, A Majeed

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. The Effect on Fertility of the 2003-2011 War in Iraq.Population and development review · 2014
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  3. Deviance, equivalence, renaissance.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

S Rawaf1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London W6 8RP, UK.
S Hassounah1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London W6 8RP, UK.
E Dubois1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London W6 8RP, UK.
B Abdalrahman1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London W6 8RP, UK.
M Raheem1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London W6 8RP, UK.
H Jamil2 Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
A Majeed1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London W6 8RP, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the early 1980s, Iraq was a middle-income and rapidly developing country with a well-developed health system. A few decades later - after wars, sanctions and a violent sectarian upsurge - child and maternal health indicators have deteriorated, its poverty headcount index is at 22.9% and diseases such as cholera have remerged. Today Iraq is beset by chronic political deadlock and a complexity of economic challenges; accordingly, all aspects of life are suffering, including health. Irrespective of the monumental investment to improve components of the health system, via national and international efforts, the health status of the population can only advance through resounding and synergistic effort in other aspects of life affecting health: the social determinants of health.

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Iraq War, 2003-2011Social ConditionsWar ExposureHumansIraqhealthIraqliving conditionsUS invasionwar

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PMID24833655
PMCPMC4023518

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