Commentary Ensuring health statistics in conflict are evidence-based.docVIP

Roberts Conflict and Health 2010, 4:10 /content/4/1/10 EDITORIAL Open Access Commentary: Ensuring health statistics in conflict Editorial are evidence-based Leslie F Roberts Abstract The author argues that measuring mortality in conflict settings is fraught with limitations which mostly result in under- estimation of mortality. Some recent publications on this subject have been based upon convenient surveillance processes, or even press reports. The author calls for vigilance against such studies and argues that war related surveillance-based mortality estimates should include measures of