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Conflict and Health BioMedCentral Research Open Access Reporting Iraqi civilian fatalities in a time of war Schuyler W Henderson1, William E Olander2 and Les Roberts*3 Address: 1Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA, 2Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA and 3Department of Population and Family Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA Email: Schuyler W Henderson - sh2290@; William E Olander - weo2102@; Les Roberts* - lfr2102@ * Corresponding author Published: 6 November 2009 Received: 18 May 2009 Accepted: 6 November 2009 Conflict and Health 2009, 3:9 doi:10.1186/1752-1505-3-9 This article is available from: /content/3/1/9 ? 2009 Henderson et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: In February, 2007, the Associated Press (AP) conducted a poll of 1,002 adults in the United States about their attitudes towards the war in Iraq. Respondents were remarkably accurate estimating the current death toll of US soldiers, yet were grossly inaccurate in estimating the current death toll of Iraqi civilians. We conducted a search of newspapers reports to determine the extent of the discrepancy between reporting Coalition and Iraqi civilian deaths, hypothesizing that there would be an over-representation of Coalition deaths compared to Iraqi civilian deaths. Methods: We examined 11 U.S. newspapers and 5 non-U.S. newspapers using electronic databases or newspaper web-archives, to record any reports between March 2003 and March 2008 of Coalition and Iraqi deaths that included a numeric indicator. Reports were described as events where they described a specific occurrence involving fatalities