Journal of Medical Council of Iran
Volume 43, Issue 3 (2025)
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Moghadasi A, Ahmadi M, Dabbagh Moghaddam A. The Impact of War on Public Health with the Brief View on 12 Days War of Iran. jmciri 2025; 43 (3) :23-38
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PhD in Public Health and Food Safety, Member of the infectious Diseases Research Center, Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, Invited scholar of Academy of Science of I.R, , Tehran, Iran
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Background: Wars and armed conflicts have a major impact on public health. Health is one of the fundamental pillars of the human rights system, and the enjoyment of physical, psychological, social health is the right of all human beings. Since the goal of public health is to increase health at the population level, experts play an important role in tackling conflict and armed conflict. In most crises, especially war, reducing human casualties is the main way to victory. The present study aimed to investigate and analyze public health during war.
Methods: In this review study, to identify relevant sources and studies, searches were conducted in reputable scientific databases, including PubMed, SID, Magiran, Medline, Scopus, Google Scholar, Celica , ScienceDirect, and the WHO website, covering the years 2000 to 2024. A comprehensive search was performed in both Persian and English using combinations of keywords such as public health, invasion, war, armed conflict, and health. The retrieved texts were independently reviewed by two researchers. In the initial search, a total of 95 articles were identified using the specified keywords. After removing duplicates and irrelevant studies, 19 articles that were directly relevant to the study’s objectives were included in the review. The results of the reviewed studies indicated that wars have adverse effects on public health and overall health status.
Results: The consequences of war on public health are in two categories: direct consequences, which include the destruction of health infrastructure, loss of lives and injuries, displacement and migration, mental injuries, increase in infectious diseases, nutritional problems and malnutrition; and the indirect consequences include: economic instability, increase in violence and crime, damage to the environment, lack of social and political trust, reduction in vaccination coverage and restrictions on access to medicine and medical equipment. Women, children, infants, elderly and disabled people are a special vulnerable population.
Conclusion: War is a humanitarian catastrophe, that has a devastating effect on all aspects of human lives, including public health, and in the event of war, it must be done quickly with the help of the health infrastructure.
Background: Wars and armed conflicts have a major impact on public health. Health is one of the fundamental pillars of the human rights system, and the enjoyment of physical, psychological, social health is the right of all human beings. Since the goal of public health is to increase health at the population level, experts play an important role in tackling conflict and armed conflict. In most crises, especially war, reducing human casualties is the main way to victory. The present study aimed to investigate and analyze public health during war.
Methods: In this review study, to identify relevant sources and studies, searches were conducted in reputable scientific databases, including PubMed, SID, Magiran, Medline, Scopus, Google Scholar, Celica , ScienceDirect, and the WHO website, covering the years 2000 to 2024. A comprehensive search was performed in both Persian and English using combinations of keywords such as public health, invasion, war, armed conflict, and health. The retrieved texts were independently reviewed by two researchers. In the initial search, a total of 95 articles were identified using the specified keywords. After removing duplicates and irrelevant studies, 19 articles that were directly relevant to the study’s objectives were included in the review. The results of the reviewed studies indicated that wars have adverse effects on public health and overall health status.
Results: The consequences of war on public health are in two categories: direct consequences, which include the destruction of health infrastructure, loss of lives and injuries, displacement and migration, mental injuries, increase in infectious diseases, nutritional problems and malnutrition; and the indirect consequences include: economic instability, increase in violence and crime, damage to the environment, lack of social and political trust, reduction in vaccination coverage and restrictions on access to medicine and medical equipment. Women, children, infants, elderly and disabled people are a special vulnerable population.
Conclusion: War is a humanitarian catastrophe, that has a devastating effect on all aspects of human lives, including public health, and in the event of war, it must be done quickly with the help of the health infrastructure.
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