title: The 2003 Iraq War and avoidable death toll.
abstract: Salman Rawaf discusses the implications of the most recent estimate of excess deaths associated with the Iraq war and subsequent occupation in the context of the current situation in Iraq. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.
authors.affiliation: WHO Collaborating Centre, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Salman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rawaf
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014754:Violence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014857:Warfare