Post-war Training Problems in Public Health

The post-war public health effects of civil conflict.

Civilian suffering from civil war extends well beyond the period of active warfare. We examine longer-term effects in a cross-national analysis of World Health Organization data on death and disability broken down by age, gender, and type of disease or condition. We find substantial long-term effects, even after controlling for several other factors. We estimate that the additional burden of de...

Some Post-War Psychological Problems

THERE is a great deal of discussion and speculation to-day about post-war conditions, and especially about the future of our own profession. Post-war planning and reconstruction, the re-moulding of our spitfires and hurricanes back into pots and pans, the return of our fighting men from the adventures and excitements of war to the steady pursuits of peace, present us with problems which we will...

Images of disease: science, public policy and health in post-war Europe

Despite its spatial and temporal constraints, this is a book with a wide brief. It collects papers given at a 1998 conference in a series sponsored by the European Commission dealing with science and society, the aim of these being to compare and contrast European experiences and to reflect on international collaboration. The conference title, "images of disease", echoes Charles Rosenberg's for...

Malalay’s Sisters: Women’s Public Visibility in ‘Post-war/Reconstruction’ Afghanistan

Global public health training.

The debate about whether to call our specialty public health or global health seems rather like angels dancing on a pin head as we face the choppy waters of change. In response to Jeffrey Koplan’s attempt to define differences between global, international and public health the deans in the USA voiced their opinion that since many public health challenges were global, an understanding of the wi...