Child health in Syria: recognising the lasting effects of warfare on health

The war in Syria, now in its fourth year, is one of the bloodiest in recent times. The legacy of war includes damage to the health of children that can last for decades and affect future generations. In this article we discuss the effects of the war on Syria’s children, highlighting the less documen...

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Autores principales: Devakumar, Delan, Birch, Marion, Rubenstein, Leonard S., Osrin, David, Sondorp, Egbert, Wells, Jonathan C. K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4630938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26535056
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-015-0061-6
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description The war in Syria, now in its fourth year, is one of the bloodiest in recent times. The legacy of war includes damage to the health of children that can last for decades and affect future generations. In this article we discuss the effects of the war on Syria’s children, highlighting the less documented longer-term effects. In addition to their present suffering, these children, and their own children, are likely to face further challenges as a result of the current conflict. This is essential to understand both for effective interventions and for ethical reasons.
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spelling pubmed-46309382015-11-04 Child health in Syria: recognising the lasting effects of warfare on health Devakumar, Delan Birch, Marion Rubenstein, Leonard S. Osrin, David Sondorp, Egbert Wells, Jonathan C. K. Confl Health Review The war in Syria, now in its fourth year, is one of the bloodiest in recent times. The legacy of war includes damage to the health of children that can last for decades and affect future generations. In this article we discuss the effects of the war on Syria’s children, highlighting the less documented longer-term effects. In addition to their present suffering, these children, and their own children, are likely to face further challenges as a result of the current conflict. This is essential to understand both for effective interventions and for ethical reasons. BioMed Central 2015-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4630938/ /pubmed/26535056 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-015-0061-6 Text en © Devakumar et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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.
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