| T18 |
0-704 |
Sentence |
denotes |
What is increasingly common since the last one-third of the 20th century is the thread of public health emergencies permeating, and often dominating, the consequences brought on by wars, conflicts, and large-scale disasters.2 Few are aware that wartime public health crises cause more deaths than weapons.3,4 Consistently in war, the public health protective threshold is destroyed and not recovered or maintained.5 Recovery is purposely ignored, resulting in increasing post-crisis mortality and morbidity indices that are characteristically ignored or denied, especially if they negatively impact political, ethnic, or religious groups whose views are contrary to the newly installed autocratic regime. |
