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Zaryab Iqbal - War and the Health of Nations - 9780804758819 - V9780804758819
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War and the Health of Nations

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Description for War and the Health of Nations Hardback. This book examines the various mechanisms through which violent conflict undermines the health and well-being of populations. Num Pages: 208 pages, 20 tables, 21 figures. BIC Classification: JFFC; JP; JW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.

Assessments of the costs of war generally focus on the financial, political, military, and territorial risks associated with involvement in violent conflict. Often overlooked are the human costs of war, particularly their effects on population well-being. In War and the Health of Nations, Zaryab Iqbal explores these human costs by offering the first large-scale empirical study of the relationship between armed conflict and population health. Working within the influential "human security" paradigm—which emphasizes the security of populations rather than states as the central object of global security—Iqbal analyzes the direct and indirect mechanisms through which violent conflict degrades population health. ... Read more

War and the Health of Nations provides a conceptual and theoretical framework for understanding the influence of violent interstate and intrastate conflict on the quality of life of populations and empirically analyzes the war-and-health relationship through statistical models using a universal sample of states. The analyses provide strong evidence for the direct as well as the indirect effects of war on public health and offer important insights into key socio-economic determinants of health achievement. The book thus demonstrates the significance of population health as an important consequence of armed conflict and highlights the role of societal vulnerabilities in studies of global security.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804758819
SKU
V9780804758819
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Zaryab Iqbal
Zaryab Iqbal is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University.

Reviews for War and the Health of Nations
"Zaryab Iqbal provides ample empirical data to illustrate these facts and to elucidate the mechanisms by which armed conflicts affect the health of individuals."—John L. Zeller, Journal of the American Medical Association "War and the Health of Nations makes an important contribution to the literature on human security, a concept that has a great deal of appeal but lacks strong ... Read more

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