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Mental health in the aftermath of conflict

Author:	Do, Quy-Toan; Iyer, Lakshmi;	Collection Title:	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5132
Country:	World;	Date Stored:	2009/11/17
Document Date:	2009/11/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Major Sector:	Education; Public Administration, Law, and Justice; Health and other social services
Rel. Proj ID:	1W-Equity And Development Research Program -- -- P099861;	Region:	The World Region
Report Number:	WPS5132	Sub Sectors:	Health; Other social services; General education sector; General public administration sector; Law and justice
SubTopics:	Gender and Health; Health Monitoring & Evaluation; Disease Control & Prevention; Health Systems Development & Reform; Population Policies	Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: The authors survey the recent literature on the mental health effects of conflict. They highlight the methodological challenges faced in this literature, which include the lack of validated mental health scales in a survey context, the difficulties in measuring individual exposure to conflict, and the issues related to making causal inferences from observed correlations. They illustrate how some of these issues can be overcome in a study of mental health in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mental health is measured using a clinically validated scale; conflict exposure is proxied by administrative data on war casualties instead of being self-reported. The analysis suggests that there are no significant differences in overall mental health across areas which are affected by ethnic conflict to a greater or lesser degree.


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