Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Survivors of the war in the Northern Kosovo: violence exposure, risk factors and public health effects of an ethnic conflict. | Wang et al. Conflict and Health 2010 4 11 http content 4 1 11 I CONFLICT AND HEALTH RESEARCH Open Access Survivors of the war in the Northern Kosovo violence exposure risk factors and public health effects of an ethnic conflict Shr-Jie Wang 1 Mimoza Salihu2 Feride Rushiti1 Labinot Bala3 and Jens Modvig1 Abstract Background The aim of this population-based study was to assess the long-lasting effects of ethnic conflict on health and well-being with a focus on injury and persistent pain at family and community level. We have also investigated possible risk factors for victimisation during the conflict and factors contributing to healing. Methods We conducted a district-level cross-sectional cluster survey of 1 115 households with a population of 6 845. Interviews were carried out in Mitrovice district in Northern Kosovo from September to October 2008 using standardised questionnaire to collect lifetime violence exposure lifestyle factors and health information on individual and household. Results Ethnic Albanians made up 95 of the sample population. Crude mortality and under-five mortality rate was not high in 2008. Over 90 of families had been exposed to at least two categories of violence and human rights violations and 493 individuals from 341 families reported torture experiences. During the two weeks before the survey 20 of individuals had suffered physical or mental pain. There were differences in pain complaints according to gender and age and whether people had been injured within 12 months had lifetime exposure to violence-related injury or had been tortured. Patterns of social and political participation in a family could affect the proportion of family members complaining of pain. The proportion of family members with pain complaints was related to a decline in the household income coef 95 CI P and the fact of borrowing money coef 95 CI P because of an injured person in the household. .
