The mental health consequences of the war affect the whole society, with women and children, rural populations, refugees, internally displaced persons and war veterans being the most vulnerable population sub-groups. An analysis of the post-conflict psychosocial programs and subsequently health and...
The war in Ukraine puts an estimated 7.5 million children at extreme mental and physical health risk. • The consequences for mental health are very diverse, so interventions must be tailored to specific cultural contexts. Abstract The news from Ukraine is currently full of heart-wrenching stories...
The infliction of war and military aggression upon children must be considered a violation of their basic human rights and can have a persistent impact on their physical and mental health and well-being, with long-term consequences for their development. Given the recent events in Ukraine with mi...
The association between age and mental health may be a reflection of the length of exposure to war trauma among various age groups, whereby older participants experienced longer exposure periods. Older individuals may also be less resilient to negative mental health consequences of violent conflict. ...
Maternal health care amid political unrest: the effect of armed conflict on antenatal care utilization in Nepal Armed conflicts, which primarily occur in low- and middle-income countries, have profound consequences for the health of affected populations, among them a... JI Price,AK Bohara - 《H...
Mental Health Services During and After Armed Conflict: The State of Knowledge and Practice "As evidence of the severe mental health consequences of war accumulates, donors, humanitarian and development agencies, and ministries of health have begun integrating mental health services into their health an...
of armed conflicts reached an all-time high, with 53 ongoing conflicts in 37 countries and 12 percent of the world's population living in an active conflict zone. Nearly 69 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced by violence and conflict, the highest number since World War II....
Military mental health has, until recently, been a neglected and marginalized area of interest and although both World Wars saw important advances, in peacetime we typically forget lessons learned in earlier conflicts. Since 2003 however, with high intensity war-fighting on two fronts involving the ...
The selection of service members has evolved from massive mobilization and demobilization surrounding the two world wars and the Korean and Vietnam Wars to a professional volunteer force during the Gulf War and conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Concepts of battle fatigue and shell shock gave way ...
Although millions of people have been exposed to war in the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, systematic studies on the long-term mental health consequences in war-affected communities are still rare. Most of the existing research evidence is on war veterans rather than civilians,1,2...