Children and childhoods. Hidden casualties of war and civil unrest

Autor:	Jane G. Schaller, Elena O. Nightingale
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	business.industry Injury prevention World War II Medicine Human factors and ergonomics Poison control General Medicine Unrest Criminology business Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health First world war
Zdroj:	JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 268:642-644
ISSN:	1538-3598 0098-7484
DOI:	10.1001/jama.268.5.642
Popis:	We have grown accustomed to wars and to measuring the casualties of wars as body counts of soldiers or tabulations of strategic buildings, military installations, or targets that have been destroyed. But there are other hidden casualties that are rarely considered: children and childhoods. Articles in recent editions ofTHE JOURNALand American Medical Association (AMA) specialty journals document the threats of domestic and societal violence to children growing up in "peaceful" countries such as the United States. 1-4 A number of articles in this issue ofThe JOURNALconsider another form of violence—war. The consequences of war have changed since World War I, when the estimated number of civilians killed by direct warfare ranged from 5% to 19%. 5-9 By World War II, estimations of the proportion of civilians killed during war had risen to 48% to 50%. 5-9 In the more than 150 declared and undeclared wars since
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