Open AccessMortality in Iraq Associated with the 2003–2011 War and Occupation: Findings from a National Cluster Sample Survey by the University Collaborative Iraq Mortality Study
Author(s) -
Amy Hagopian,
Abraham D. Flaxman,
Tim K. Takaro,
Sahar Al-Shatari,
Julie Knoll Rajaratnam,
Stan Becker,
Alison LevinRector,
Lindsay P. Galway,
Berq J. Hadi Al-Yasseri,
William Weiss,
Christopher J L Murray,
Gilbert Burnham
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
plos medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.847
H-Index - 228
eISSN - 1549-1676
pISSN - 1549-1277
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001533
Subject(s) - demography , medicine , confidence interval , mortality rate , sociology
Based on a survey of 2,000 randomly selected households throughout Iraq, Amy Hagopian and colleagues estimate that close to half a million excess deaths are attributable to the recent Iraq war and occupation. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary
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