Militarism, War, and Policing

Public health impacts of militarism

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Topics in war prevention and recovery and peace promotion

• Veterans Health
• Drones
• Health effects of violence
• Disability, Chronic Illness, and Deafness
• Neoliberalism
• Peace Promotion in Faith Communities
• Refugee Health

Some RPH events about militarism

• 2014 01/11 Shock Doctrine film screening
• 2013 11/03 Stop Bloomberg's "Stop and Frisk" policy protest at American Public Health Association conference
• 2013 08/02 (endorsed and attended) IVAW's 2013 National Convention plenary event, 21st Century American Militarism: Occupation Abroad and Resistance at Home
• 2013 03/16 War and Peace: A Public Health Perspective on The Health Consequences of War conference
• 2013 01/28 The House I Live In: Mass Incarceration, the Drug War, and Public Health film screening and panel discussion
• 2012 10/22 Status of Cholera Epidemic in Haiti resolution
• 2012 08/20 (attended) The Next Movement's Treating Drug Abuse as a Public Health Issue, Not a Crime forum and panel discussion at Stroger Hospital (followed by RPH social debriefing happy hour)

Resources

• APHA position paper (2009): The Role of Public Health Practitioners, Academics, and Advocates in Relation to Armed Conflict and War. Retrieved 1 Oct 2014 from http://www.psriowa.org/msp/apha-position-paper-on-war_2008.pdf
• Robert Asprey (2002). War In The Shadows: The Guerrilla in History. Morrow & Co.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Veterans Health: Gulf War Studies. http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/veterans/default2.htm
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Veterans Health: Vietnam Studies. http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/veterans/default1.htm
• Dennis Halliday (2013) WHO Refuses to Publish Report on Cancers and Birth Defects in Iraq Caused by Depleted Uranium Ammunition. http://politicsofhealth.org/content-access/editorials/groundbreaking-articles/344-who-refuses-to-publish-report-on-cancers-and-birth-defects
• Barry Levy & Victor Sidel (2007). War and Public Health, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press.
• Right To Heal. http://righttoheal.org/
• William H. Wiist et al. (Jun 2014). The Role of Public Health in the Prevention of War: Rationale and Competencies. American Journal of Public Health 104(6):e34-e47