Journal
Discover Health Systems
Discover Health Systems is an open access journal publishing research from across all fields relevant to health systems research.
Armed conflict poses a major threat to health care system. Africa has been the hardest hit continent in armed conflict, fragile health care system, and poor population’s health outcomes. Armed conflict poses threat to entire health care system through attacks on health infrastructure and personnel, interrupting health service provision, leading to poor service delivery and health outcomes.
This Collection will bring together quantitative and qualitative studies, case reports and viewpoints on broad range of health topics, such as attacks on health infrastructure and health personnel, evaluation of the environmental, social, economic, and cultural impacts of war, civil unrest and conflicts, health systems’ preparedness, response, and resilience to address war/conflict-related inequities, wars/conflict, schooling and the impact on individuals/families and community functioning, the role of the United Nation peace operations to counter war/conflicts and civil unrest, infectious disease prevention and control, sexual and gender-based violence, reproductive and maternal health, mental health, non-communicable diseases, health systems, and ethics in conflicts and humanitarian crises.
Keywords: perilous medicine, conflict and health, armed conflicts and health, health crisis, health/social systems preparedness and responses, methodology in crisis, conflict and ethics, Sub-Saharan Africa
Submit your manuscript to this collection through the participating journal.
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Hailay Abrha Gesesew
Dr. Hailay Abrha Gesesew, Research Centre for Public Health, Equity and Human Flourishing (PHEHF), Torrens University Australia, Australia Dr. Gesesew is a Senior Research Fellow involved in research work and supervising PhD students. He is interested in HIV care continuum, social determinants of health, contemporary and alternative medicine, and more recently, perilous medicine, i.e., conflict and health in Africa. Currently, he is investigating the role of HIV peer counselors on testing uptake, treatment linkage and retention, and perilous medicine in Tigray. He applies multiple quantitative and qualitative methods and software in study. -
Paul Ward
Prof. Paul Ward, Research Centre for Public Health, Equity and Human Flourishing (PHEHF), Torrens University Australia, Australia Prof. Paul Ward is a social scientist and he applies/critiques various methodologies and social theories to contemporary public health problems. His current research focuses on equity of access to healthcare services, public trust in a variety of health and social care services and systems, and understanding risk behaviors of various vulnerable and marginalized population groups. -
Lillian Mwanri
Prof. Lillian Mwanri, Research Centre for Public Health, Equity and Human Flourishing (PHEHF), Torrens University Australia, Australia Assoc. Prof. Mwanri is a public health physician by training and has research experiences in public health medicine in general, global health and migrants’ health in particular. She is highly interested in the areas of HIV, social determinants of health/mental health, migrant’s health and migration, women’s health, cultural perspectives of health, etc., and experienced in supervising PhD students in a wide range of public and global health research areas using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. -
Nelsensius Klau Fauk
Dr. Nelsensius Klau Fauk, Torrens University Australia, Australia Dr. Fauk is currently working as a researcher at Torrens University Australia. He mainly applies qualitative methods in investigating public health problems. His current research focuses on understanding determinants of HIV transmission and impacts of HIV among various key population groups, access to healthcare services, mental health, migrants’ health and disability, and social and emotional wellbeing of Indigenous children and adolescents in CANZUS nations.
