1Department of Community Medicine, Saddam College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq. 2Chest and Respiratory Diseases Institute, Baghdad, Iraq. 3National Tuberculosis Programme Manager, Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq. ABSTRACT In a prospective cohort study in Iraq, schoolchildren with a positive tuberculin skin test during the nationwide survey in 2000 were followed up in 2002 to determine prevalenc...

This case study examines how traditional and Internet news use, as well as face-to-face and online political discussion, contributed to political participation during the period leading up to the Iraq War. A Web-based survey of political dissenters (N=307) conducted at the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq provides the data used to examine the relationships among informational media use, o...

In the first 6.5 years of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), U.S. military casualties exceeded 3,400 hostile deaths, 800 nonhostile deaths (due to disease, nonbattle injury, and other causes), and over 31,000 troops wounded in action. Casualty rates in Iraq have been considerably lower that during the Vietnam conflict, and a greater proportion of troops wounded in Iraq survive their wounds. Before ...

BACKGROUND Deployment to the 2003 Iraq War was associated with ill health in reserve armed forces personnel. AIMS To investigate reasons for the excess of ill health in reservists. METHOD UK personnel who were deployed to the 2003 Iraq War completed a health survey about experiences on deployment to Iraq. Health status was measured using self-report of common mental disorders, post-traumati...

Medical education in Iraq was one of the best educational systems in the region, especially during the 1980s. Following this golden period, the educational system suffered from regression and descent in both the academic curriculums that are taught and teaching techniques of both undergraduate and postgraduate physicians. This was due to multiple factors: including the wars, sectarian conflicts...

In the week before the 2003 American attack on Iraq, the effects of authoritarianism and the social dominance orientation on support for the attack were examined. Based on prior research on the nature of these constructs, a structural model was developed and tested. As predicted, authoritarianism strengthened support for the attack by intensifying the perception that Iraq threatened America. So...

We describe the Iraq Body Count Corpus (IBC-C) dataset, the first substantial armed conflict-related dataset which can be used for conflict analysis. IBCC provides a ground-truth dataset for conflict specific named entity recognition, slot filling, and event de-duplication. IBCC is constructed using data collected by the Iraq Body Count project which has been recording incidents from the ongoin...

BACKGROUND The environment for medical education in Iraq has been difficult for many years. The 2003 invasion of Iraq accelerated a steady emigration of faculty and graduates. Kidnappings and deaths of doctors became commonplace. To understand current career plans, expectations and perceptions of medical students, three Baghdad medical schools were surveyed. METHODS Written questionnaires wer...

O n 29 March 2011 Professor Mohammed Alwan, dean of AlMustansiriya Medical School in Baghdad and my uncle, was assassinated. A bomb was planted in his car and exploded as he got in after leaving his medical practice. He was a distinguished academic and surgeon who was respected by his students, and he was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Within a week, another clinical acad...

In 2004, the Lancet published results from a survey that estimated the death toll attributable to the conflict in Iraq until then at almost 100,000. Since that moment, the topic has been subject of a large debate among scientists. Besides this publication, four other surveys conducted in Iraq reported data on mortality due to the conflict. Although each one of these studies had its own specific...