Armed conflict and child health

SUMMARY: Armed conflict has a major impact on child health throughout the world. One in six children worldwide lives in an area of armed conflict and civilians are more likely to die than soldiers as a result of the conflict. In stark contrast to the effect on children, the international arms trade...

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Autores principales: Rieder, Michael, Choonara, Imti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2011
Materias:
Reviews
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21393303
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/adc.2009.178186
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description SUMMARY: Armed conflict has a major impact on child health throughout the world. One in six children worldwide lives in an area of armed conflict and civilians are more likely to die than soldiers as a result of the conflict. In stark contrast to the effect on children, the international arms trade results in huge profits for the large corporations involved in producing arms, weapons and munitions. Armed conflict is not inevitable but is an important health issue that should be prevented.
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spelling pubmed-32372602011-12-15 Armed conflict and child health Rieder, Michael Choonara, Imti Arch Dis Child Reviews SUMMARY: Armed conflict has a major impact on child health throughout the world. One in six children worldwide lives in an area of armed conflict and civilians are more likely to die than soldiers as a result of the conflict. In stark contrast to the effect on children, the international arms trade results in huge profits for the large corporations involved in producing arms, weapons and munitions. Armed conflict is not inevitable but is an important health issue that should be prevented. BMJ Group 2011-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3237260/ /pubmed/21393303 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/adc.2009.178186 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/legalcode.
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