Consequences of ongoing civil conflict in Somalia: evidence for public health responses.
Debarati Guha-Sapir and Ruwan Ratnayake use field data to demonstrate the severe vulnerability faced by much of the Somalian population due to ongoing conflict, and call for concerted public health interventions and access to food aid especially in southern Somalia.
Guha-Sapir
Debarati
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World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), School of Public Health, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. debby.sapir@uclouvain.be
Ratnayake
Ruwan
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D002423:Cause of Death; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D011634:Public Health; D012066:Relief Work; D012998:Somalia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014857:Warfare