When we consider war, the first things that tend to come to mind are tanks, missiles, and cities in shambles. But there is ...

For human health, war is hell. One could pick any past or present conflict to illustrate how war damages health. Armed conflicts kill, injure and traumatize people; wreck health infrastructure and ...

Well-being of Ukrainian and Polish college students during the Russo-Ukrainian war and coping strategies as predictors of mental health disorders, Critical Public Health, 35, 1, (2025). https ...

These wars can leave toxic environmental legacies and cause untold damage to human health. One-quarter of the world’s population, or two billion people , live in countries experiencing war.

For example, the Torch 2 report in 2016 showed a long list of other health effects apart from thyroid cancer after the Chornobyl disaster. The Chornobyl meltdown had longterm health impacts ...

War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken bodies being ferried on stretchers from the rubble of homes and hospitals by ...

Tallying the understudied toll of war on human health matters because conflict is “really a political choice,” Flaxman said. “One that I feel like if we had the evidence on, we might be ...

Each attack on health care is an attack on health and basic human rights. We already use the best available technology to wage war. We should use the best available technology to enforce the rules ...

Desperation is mounting in the Palestinian territory of more than 2 million, which experts say is at risk of famine because ...

A reductive argument that “war is good for medicine” would minimize the horrific human cost of combat. Yet multiple scholars have highlighted how the urgency, aura of crisis, national ...