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Conflict, forced displacement and health in Sri Lanka: a review of the research landscape
Sri Lanka has recently emerged from nearly three decades of protracted conflict, which came to an end five years ago in 2009. A number of researchers have explored the devastating effect the conflict has had on public health, and its impact on Sri Lanka’s health system - hailed as a success story in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4232712/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25400692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1505-8-22 |
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author | Siriwardhana, Chesmal Wickramage, Kolitha |
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description | Sri Lanka has recently emerged from nearly three decades of protracted conflict, which came to an end five years ago in 2009. A number of researchers have explored the devastating effect the conflict has had on public health, and its impact on Sri Lanka’s health system - hailed as a success story in the South Asian region. Remarkably, no attempt has been made to synthesize the findings of such studies in order to build an evidence-informed research platform. This review aims to map the ‘research landscape’ on the impact of conflict on health in Sri Lanka. Findings highlight health status in select groups within affected communities and unmet needs of health systems in post-conflict regions. We contend that Sri Lanka’s post-conflict research landscape requires exploration of individual, community and health system resilience, to provide better evidence for health programs and interventions after 26 years of conflict. |
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spelling | pubmed-42327122014-11-16 Conflict, forced displacement and health in Sri Lanka: a review of the research landscape Siriwardhana, Chesmal Wickramage, Kolitha Confl Health Review Sri Lanka has recently emerged from nearly three decades of protracted conflict, which came to an end five years ago in 2009. A number of researchers have explored the devastating effect the conflict has had on public health, and its impact on Sri Lanka’s health system - hailed as a success story in the South Asian region. Remarkably, no attempt has been made to synthesize the findings of such studies in order to build an evidence-informed research platform. This review aims to map the ‘research landscape’ on the impact of conflict on health in Sri Lanka. Findings highlight health status in select groups within affected communities and unmet needs of health systems in post-conflict regions. We contend that Sri Lanka’s post-conflict research landscape requires exploration of individual, community and health system resilience, to provide better evidence for health programs and interventions after 26 years of conflict. BioMed Central 2014-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4232712/ /pubmed/25400692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1505-8-22 Text en © Siriwardhana and Wickramage; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Review Siriwardhana, Chesmal Wickramage, Kolitha Conflict, forced displacement and health in Sri Lanka: a review of the research landscape |
title | Conflict, forced displacement and health in Sri Lanka: a review of the research landscape |
title_full | Conflict, forced displacement and health in Sri Lanka: a review of the research landscape |
title_fullStr | Conflict, forced displacement and health in Sri Lanka: a review of the research landscape |
title_full_unstemmed | Conflict, forced displacement and health in Sri Lanka: a review of the research landscape |
title_short | Conflict, forced displacement and health in Sri Lanka: a review of the research landscape |
title_sort | conflict, forced displacement and health in sri lanka: a review of the research landscape |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4232712/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25400692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1505-8-22 |
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