Mortality in Iraq (Letter)
Gilbert Burnham and colleagues' Iraq mortality study fills an important information gap in a country where reliable mortality statistics are rare. It transforms anecdotes of violence into systematic evidence. However, the paper could have addressed some methodological issues which might have strengthened the credibility of the estimates.
First, according to Burnham and colleagues' results, there were nearly 600 war deaths per day—an unusually high number compared with almost any other armed conflict...
Prepared by: Debarati Guha-Sapir, Olivier Degomme, Jon Pederson
Published in: The Lancet, Volume 369, Issue 9556, Page 102, 13 January 2007
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