Medicine and warPub Date : 1993-04-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009308409086
{"title":"Violence: a public health concern.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/07488009308409086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009308409086","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"9 2","pages":"91-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009308409086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19328393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1993-04-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009308409093
L Waterston
{"title":"Eighth international conference on radiation and health.","authors":"L Waterston","doi":"10.1080/07488009308409093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009308409093","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"9 2","pages":"145-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009308409093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19328391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1993-04-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009308409089
H Bürgel
{"title":"East Timor.","authors":"H Bürgel","doi":"10.1080/07488009308409089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009308409089","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Sixteen years of violations of human rights and terror have destroyed the living conditions of the people of East Timor. In September 1991 I had the opportunity to visit the island: this paper discusses the social and medical conditions found there.</p>","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"9 2","pages":"116-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009308409089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19095120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1993-01-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009308409075
J Hart, M A Weingarten, A Druckman, Z Feldman, A Shay
{"title":"Acute cardiac effects of 'SCUD' missile attacks on a civilian population.","authors":"J Hart, M A Weingarten, A Druckman, Z Feldman, A Shay","doi":"10.1080/07488009308409075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009308409075","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 'SCUD' raids on Israel during the Gulf War afforded a rare opportunity to examine the effect of mass acute fear on the cardiac health of the general population. Press reports suggested an alarming rise in cardiac deaths during the first missile raids. In order to ascertain this statement, we examined the Emergency Room records of a community hospital in the affected area and all the death certificates in the local region. The periods studied were from 1 January to 28 February 1991, and the equivalent weeks in 1990. The Emergency Room records showed that there was an increased rate of cardiac complaints throughout the war, most marked during the first week. However, this was not accompanied by an increased cardiac mortality, either in the hospital or in the region as a whole, except during the first week. A similar increase in cardiac mortality occurred during the same week the previous year. The increased incidence of acute cardiac events during the first week of the war was probably a coincidence, and not a direct consequence of mass fear. Panic, occasioned by press reports, may have led to a lower threshold of referral which persisted throughout the war.</p>","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"9 1","pages":"40-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009308409075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19430092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1993-01-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009308409078
J Piachaud
{"title":"Post-traumatic stress in children.","authors":"J Piachaud","doi":"10.1080/07488009308409078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009308409078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"9 1","pages":"58-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009308409078","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19430093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1993-01-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009308409129
{"title":"Physicians' appeal for peace with justice.","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/07488009308409129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009308409129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"9 4 1","pages":"354-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009308409129","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59454119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1993-01-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009308409076
D L Dumitrascu, S Hopulele, A Baban
{"title":"Cardiovascular complaints following the uprising of December 1989 in Romania.","authors":"D L Dumitrascu, S Hopulele, A Baban","doi":"10.1080/07488009308409076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009308409076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The cardiovascular system may react to stress either by coronary events, such as angina pectoris or myocardial infarction, or by non-coronary responses, such as rises in blood pressure or non-specific circulatory disorders and chest pain. There is contradictory information about the cardiovascular reactions to war stress. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of stress produced by the uprising of December 1989 in Romania on the cardiovascular system. Cases referred from 21 to 31 December 1989 to the emergency department of the largest university clinic of the Cluj district, and those admitted there, were analysed and compared with cases referred in the same periods in 1988, 1990 and 1991 and from 1 to 10 January 1990. There was a significant increase in non-coronary cardiovascular complaints referred for consultation in the first 10 days from the beginning of the uprising in Cluj and a non-significant increase in the following 10 days, but no increase in consultations for complaints of coronary origin due to unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction or changes in hospital admissions. In conclusion, the stress produced by the uprising in Romania was correlated with a higher incidence of non-coronary cardiovascular complaints but no alteration in coronary events (unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction), or in hospital admissions for cardiovascular complaints.</p>","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"9 1","pages":"45-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009308409076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19430090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1993-01-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009308409073
A R Miller, C R Kershaw
{"title":"Initial medical reception, intervention and survey work in combined military and civilian humanitarian aid: operation 'Safe Haven', northern Iraq 1991.","authors":"A R Miller, C R Kershaw","doi":"10.1080/07488009308409073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009308409073","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Service medical teams were involved in the medical screening and initial reception of displaced Kurds into the first United Nations Relocation Camp in Zakho, Northern Iraq in April 1991. Massive logistic support and adequate security were required for the delivery of the essential elements of relief. The prompt deployment of such teams enabled rapid surveys of the medical extent of the disaster to be undertaken during the screening process whilst individuals were prioritized for rehydration, supplement feeding and therapy. Over 12,000 displaced persons entered the camp in the first 10 days. Reported perinatal mortality during the two-month exodus crisis in an unselected group of 2,200 was 375 per 1,000 births. In the same group of families surviving to tell the tale, one in five of the infants who had been in the mountains had died and the fertility rate may have been as high as 380 per 1,000 women of child-bearing age in the previous year. In a larger survey of 3,825 unselected persons entering the camp, 745 (19.5 per cent) were estimated to be under five years of age and a quarter of these had a significant medical problem. There were 290 (7.6 per cent) estimated to be under two, and a quarter of these were judged to be severely malnourished. A high degree of international cooperation between military and civilian medical and relief teams was demonstrated in dealing with this crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"9 1","pages":"24-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009308409073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19429192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Medicine and warPub Date : 1993-01-01DOI: 10.1080/07488009308409074
M Marcikić, Z Kraus, B Dmitrović, L Zibar, S Matković, A Marusić
{"title":"View of a war from a pathology department: Croatian experience.","authors":"M Marcikić, Z Kraus, B Dmitrović, L Zibar, S Matković, A Marusić","doi":"10.1080/07488009308409074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07488009308409074","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This report presents an analysis of autopsy records from the Department of Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Osijek General Hospital, in the period from 2 May 1991, when 12 Croatian policemen were killed in an ambush in Borovo Selo and the war against Croatia unofficially began, until 15 January 1992, when the last cease-fire agreement between Croatia and Serbia, sponsored by the United Nations, became effective. During that time, 651 war-related autopsies were performed, constituting 42 per cent of all the deaths recorded in eastern Slavonia for that period. This number presents an 11-fold increase in the number of violent deaths in comparison to the same period of the pre-war year 1989 to 90. Forty-four per cent of all deaths were civilian ones. Explosive wounds were the most frequent cause of death: they accounted for 60 per cent of the civilian and 49 per cent of all the deaths. This fact and the extensive destruction of the cities in eastern Slavonia, including their hospitals, indicate that a principal characteristic of this and many modern wars is sudden and unexpected ground and air attacks on civilian targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":77260,"journal":{"name":"Medicine and war","volume":"9 1","pages":"33-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07488009308409074","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19429193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}