Skip to main content

Prison, violence, and conflict

Section edited by Kaveh Khoshnood

This section considers studies regarding the health and human rights of prison inmates and victims of violence, war, and civil conflict.

  1. Quality of life (QOL) research develops data and insight into issues that pertain not only to the individual, but that can also apply to the population as a whole. This study aimed to analyze the QOL of Kurdis...

    Authors: Hamdia Mirkhan Ahmed
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2020 20:29
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Brazil has the third largest prison population in the world. In 2016, the female prison population totaled 42,000, an increase of 656% over the population recorded in the early 2000s. The objective of this stu...

    Authors: Priscila França de Araújo, Ligia Regina Franco Sansigolo Kerr, Carl Kendall, George W. Rutherford, David W. Seal, Roberto da Justa Pires Neto, Patrícia Neyva da Costa Pinheiro, Marli Teresinha Gimeniz Galvão, Larissa Fortunato Araújo, Francisco Marto Leal Pinheiro and Ana Zaira da Silva
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2020 20:28
    Content type: Research article Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC International Health and Human Rights 2020 20:31

  3. An evaluation was conducted of a three-year intervention focused on violence against women and girls (VAWG) and implemented in the conflict-affected north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a coun...

    Authors: Elisabet Le Roux, Julienne Corboz, Nigel Scott, Maggie Sandilands, Uwezo Baghuma Lele, Elena Bezzolato and Rachel Jewkes
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2020 20:27
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  4. Sexual function is one of the main aspects of life. Pregnancy affects sexual function. The aim of this study was to determine the sexual dysfunction in young pregnant women and its correlation with intimate pa...

    Authors: Ellahe Bahrami_Vazir, Sakineh Mohammad-Alizadeh-Charandabi, Mahin Kamalifard, Fatemeh Ghelichkhani, Azam Mohammadi and Mojgan Mirghafourvand
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2020 20:24
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a human-rights violation with adverse long-term and inter-generational consequences. Redefining VAWG as legally unacceptable is one strategy for social change. The co...

    Authors: Kathryn M. Yount, Patricia C. Lewis, Cari Jo Clark, Lori Heise, Ruchira T. Naved and Lauren Maxwell
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2020 20:13
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  6. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread problem affecting all cultures and socioeconomic groups. This study explored the trends in prevalence and risk factors associated with IPV among Zimbabwean women...

    Authors: Jeanette Iman’ishimwe Mukamana, Pamela Machakanja and Nicholas Kofi Adjei
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2020 20:2
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  7. Treatment and special protection of the rights of incarcerated young people in prisons are mandated under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), as well as under United Nations (UN) human rights instruments.

    Authors: Marie-Claire Van Hout and Rosemary Mhlanga-Gunda
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2019 19:17
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  8. In recent times, sub-Saharan African (SSA) prisons have seen a substantial increase in women prisoners, including those incarcerated with children.

    Authors: Marie-Claire Van Hout and Rosemary Mhlanga-Gunda
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2019 19:13
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. Words matter when describing people involved in the criminal justice system because language can have a significant impact upon health, wellbeing, and access to health information and services. However, termin...

    Authors: Nguyen Toan Tran, Stéphanie Baggio, Angela Dawson, Éamonn O’Moore, Brie Williams, Precious Bedell, Olivier Simon, Willem Scholten, Laurent Getaz and Hans Wolff
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:41
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  10. Smaller groups of victims of violence, abuse, neglect or exploitation – such as male victims of intimate partner violence (IPV), victims of elder abuse, victims of abuse by carers, victims of parent abuse, vic...

    Authors: Roderik F Viergever, Nicki Thorogood, Judith RLM Wolf and Mary Alison Durand
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:39
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  11. More than 17.000 Palestinians were injured during different Israeli military incursions on the Gaza Strip from 2006 to 2014. Many suffered traumatic extremity amputations. We describe the injuries, complicatio...

    Authors: Hanne Edøy Heszlein-Lossius, Yahya Al-Borno, Samar Shaqqoura, Nashwa Skaik, Lasse Melvaer Giil and Mads Gilbert
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:34
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  12. Sub Saharan African (SSA) prisons have seen a substantial increase in women prisoners in recent years. Despite this increase, women prisoners constitute a minority in male dominated prison environments, and th...

    Authors: Marie Claire Van Hout and Rosemary Mhlanga-Gunda
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:31
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  13. Exposure to interparental violence (EIPV) has been identified as a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV). However, studies in Nigeria have rarely and specifically examined exposure to interparental v...

    Authors: Bola Lukman Solanke
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2018 18:1
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  14. During the era of apartheid in South Africa, a number of mental health professionals were vocal about the need for socio-economic and political reform. They described the deleterious psychological and social i...

    Authors: Jason Bantjes, Leslie Swartz and Pieter Niewoudt
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2017 17:29
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. Though many women are suffering the consequences of sexual violence, only few victims speak out as it is sensitive and prone to stigma. This lack of data made it difficult to get full picture of the problem an...

    Authors: Yohannes Mehretie Adinew and Mihiret Abreham Hagos
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2017 17:19
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  17. Sex trafficking and sexual exploitation has been widely reported, especially in conflict-affected settings, which appear to increase women’s and children’s vulnerabilities to these extreme abuses.

    Authors: Alys McAlpine, Mazeda Hossain and Cathy Zimmerman
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:34
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  18. Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) are a unique group that are often overlooked in many developing countries due to systemic weaknesses, lack of political commitment and inadequate support from government and no...

    Authors: Joslin Dogbe, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Anthony Edusei, Gyikua Plange-Rhule, Nicholas Addofoh, Sandra Baffour-Awuah, Osei Sarfo-Kantanka, Charles Hammond and Michael Owusu
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2016 16:20
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. Karen refugees have suffered traumatic experiences that affect their physical and mental health in resettlement. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends assessing traumatic hist...

    Authors: Tonya L Cook, Patricia J Shannon, Gregory A Vinson, James P Letts and Ehtaw Dwee
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:8
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  20. Armed conflict potentially poses serious challenges to access and quality of maternal and reproductive health (MRH) services, resulting in increased maternal morbidity and mortality. The effects of armed confl...

    Authors: Primus Che Chi, Patience Bulage, Henrik Urdal and Johanne Sundby
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2015 15:7
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. With quantitative sensory testing (QST) we recently found no differences in sensory function of the foot soles between groups of torture victims with or without exposure to falanga (beatings under the feet). C...

    Authors: Karen Prip, Ann L Persson and Bengt H Sjölund
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2012 12:40
    Content type: Research article Published on:

BMC International Health and Human Rights

ISSN: 1472-698X

Contact us