Worldwide War Deaths Underestimated (an accompanying editorial in the journal...)

Worldwide War Deaths Underestimated

Date:6/19/2008

an accompanying editorial in the journal, said that even this method underestimates the number of people killed in wars.

"Even though the data on war deaths is not very good, it is much better . . . in poor developing countries -- where virtually all wars now are -- than it was 10 or 20 years ago," Garfield said.

However, all deaths because of war are not being counted, Garfield said, since even Obermeyer's team left out the more indirect deaths from starvation, infectious disease and other illnesses, and forms of injury not directly linked to armed combat.

"We are counting more of the violent deaths, but we only irregularly address indirect deaths, which may be far greater than combatant deaths," he added.

More information

The Iraq Coalition Casualty Count offers their tally of lives lost in the current Iraq conflict on their Web site.

SOURCES: Ziad Obermeyer, M.Phil., research scientist, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston; Richard Garfield, Dr.PH., professor of clinical international nursing, Columbia University, New York City; June 20, 2008, online edition, British Medical Journal

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