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BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH
Volume 7, Issue SUPPL_8, Pages -Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009402
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Health policies and all other topics
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This paper discusses the relationship between peace and health, with a focus on the Americas, and calls for interdisciplinary research. The author hopes that the findings will promote dialogue on peace and health in regional and global health literature.
The relationship between peace and health is complex, multifactorial and fraught with challenges of definitions, measurements and outcomes. This exploratory commentary on this nexus within a focus on the Americas posits this challenge clearly and calls for more scholarship and empirical work on this issue from an interdisciplinary perspective. The overall goal of this paper is to try and explore the elements that impact the relationship between peace and health with a focus on the Americas (defined as countries spanning from Canada to Argentina) in the post-Cold war period. Focusing on the 1990s and onwards, we seek to underscore why violence continues to permeate these societies despite a third and lasting wave of democratisation in the hemisphere. We hope this will allow a more robust dialogue on peace and health in the regional and global health literature.
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