Militarization, human rights violations and community responses as determinants of health in southeastern Myanmar: results of a cluster survey
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- 作者：William W. Davis ; Luke C. Mullany ; Matt Schissler ; Saw Albert…
- 关键词：Human Rights ; Burma ; Myanmar ; Militarization ; Agency ; Resilience ; Protection ; Self ; Protection ; Public Health
- 刊名：Conflict and Health
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：9
- 期：1
- 全文大小：701 KB
- 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Emergency Medicine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1752-1505
文摘
Background The Myanmar army and ethnic armed groups agreed to a preliminary ceasefire in 2012, but a heavy military presence remains in southeastern Myanmar. Qualitative data suggested this militarization can result in human rights abuses in the absence of armed engagements between the parties, and that rural ethnic civilians use a variety of self-protection strategies to avoid these abuses or reduce their negative impacts. We used data from a household survey to determine prevalence of select self-protection activities and to examine exposure to armed groups, human rights violations and self-protection activities as determinants of health in southeastern Myanmar.