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. 2019 Apr 11:13:14.
doi: 10.1186/s13031-019-0198-9. eCollection 2019.

The long-term health consequences of genocide: developing GESQUQ - a genocide studies checklist

Jutta Lindert  1   2 , Ichiro Kawachi  3 , Haim Y Knobler  4 , Moshe Z Abramowitz  1   2   3   4   5   6   7 , Sandro Galea  5 , Bayard Roberts  6 , Richard Mollica  7 , Martin McKee  6
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The long-term health consequences of genocide: developing GESQUQ - a genocide studies checklist

Jutta Lindert et al. Confl Health. .

Abstract

Background: Genocide is an atrocity that seeks to destroy whole populations, leaving empty countries, empty spaces and empty memories, but also a large health burden among survivors is enormous. We propose a genocide reporting checklist to encourage consistent high quality in studies designed to provide robust and reliable data on the long term impact of genocide.

Methods: An interdisciplinary (Public Health, epidemiology, psychiatry, medicine, sociology, genocide studies) and international working committee of experts from Germany, Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom used an iterative consensus process to develop a genocide studies checklist for studies of the long term health consequences.

Results: We created a list of eight domains (A Ethical approval, B External validity, C Misclassification, D Study design, E Confounder, F Data collection, G Withdrawal) with 1-3 specific items (total 17).

Conclusion: The genocide studies checklist is easy to use for authors, journal editors, peer reviewers, and others involved in documenting the health consequences of genocide.

Keywords: Bias; Genocide; Long term impact; Mental health; Quality criteria.

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Conflict of interest statement

Not applicable.Not applicable.Bayard Roberts is co-Editor-in-Chief of Conflict and Health. He was not involved in handling this manuscript.Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

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