Mental health in the aftermath of conflict

Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer

No 5132, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Disease Control&Prevention; Population Policies; Gender and Health; Health Systems Development&Reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-11-01
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