TY - JOUR
T1 - The roles of the health sector and health workers before, during and after violent conflict
AU - Buhmann, Caecilie
AU - Barbara, Joanna Santa
AU - Arya, Neil
AU - Melf, Klaus
N1 - Keywords: Altruism; Conflict (Psychology); Health Personnel; Humans; Military Medicine; Professional Role; Time Factors; Violence; War; World Health
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Starting with a view of war as a significant population health problem, this article explores the roles of health workers in relation to violent conflict. Four different roles are identified, defined by goals and values--military, development, humanitarian and peace. In addition, four dimensions of health work are seen as cross-cutting factors influencing health work in violent conflict-- whether the health worker is an insider or outsider to the conflict, whether they are oriented to primary, secondary or tertiary prevention of the mortality and morbidity of war, whether they take an individual clinical or a population health approach, and whether they are oriented to policy and whole-sector change or not. This article explores the nature of these roles, the influence of these cross-cutting dimensions, the challenges of each role and finally commonalities and possibilities for cooperation between roles.
AB - Starting with a view of war as a significant population health problem, this article explores the roles of health workers in relation to violent conflict. Four different roles are identified, defined by goals and values--military, development, humanitarian and peace. In addition, four dimensions of health work are seen as cross-cutting factors influencing health work in violent conflict-- whether the health worker is an insider or outsider to the conflict, whether they are oriented to primary, secondary or tertiary prevention of the mortality and morbidity of war, whether they take an individual clinical or a population health approach, and whether they are oriented to policy and whole-sector change or not. This article explores the nature of these roles, the influence of these cross-cutting dimensions, the challenges of each role and finally commonalities and possibilities for cooperation between roles.
M3 - Journal article
SN - 1362-3699
VL - 26
SP - 4
EP - 23
JO - Medicine, Conflict and Survival
JF - Medicine, Conflict and Survival
IS - 1
ER -