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Open research questions in Health and Conflict Studies

40 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,055 Health and Conflict Studies papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • Develop and implement longer-term plans to reintegrate EMT or transitional structures into the health system recovery, indicating a need for future work on sustainability and transition strategies.

    The role of infectious diseases and non-violent mortality prediction in armed conflicts · 2026 · DOI

  • Conduct comprehensive assessments of health facilities to evaluate existing infrastructure, capacity, and gaps in IPC and WASH, indicating these assessments have not been systematically completed.

    The role of infectious diseases and non-violent mortality prediction in armed conflicts · 2026 · DOI

  • The shift from a microeconomic approach to macroeconomic analysis represents the main limitation of this study, but it nevertheless is a first attempt to verify how contexts pervaded by violence can generate less healthy lifestyles and how these can, albeit only in part, explain gender differences in sedentary behavior.

    Gender Gap in Physical Activity: The Role of Conflicts and Political Instability · 2025 · DOI

  • Abstract Who and how many died in the 2020 Karabakh War? With limited evidence provided by authorities, media outlets, and human rights organizations, still little is known about the death toll caused by the 44-day conflict in and around Nagorno-Karabakh.

    The Casualties of War: An Excess Mortality Estimate of Lives Lost in the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict · 2023 · DOI

  • Especially for the pediatric community, the recent wars' toll of at least 67 children in the Gaza Strip and two children in Israel killed warrants attention.

    Structural Violence and its Effects on Children Living in War and Armed Conflict Zones: A Palestinian Perspective · 2021 · DOI

  • This article pays attention to the poorly understood nodding syndrome (NS) and its political connotations, while exploring a case of mortality in northern Uganda.

    Phone calls and political ping-pong: nodding syndrome and healthcare provision in Uganda · 2019 · DOI

  • Participants from MSF, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Medical Aid for Palestinians and academic organizations discussed current trends in violence against health workers and attacks on health facilities, presented research findings and highlighted key debates and research gaps in evidence.

    Documenting attacks on health workers and facilities in armed conflicts · 2016 · DOI

  • Yet there are many factors that inhibit systematic data collection: poor or non-existent data collection by those in the field (for a variety of reasons ranging from security risks to insufficient research capacity); bias in data collection; insufficient research funding for the topic; and a lack of developed method.

    Documenting attacks on health workers and facilities in armed conflicts · 2016 · DOI

  • Although heart disease had occurred in both British and American armies in previous wars, the threads connecting this disease with heart disease in any previous wars are sparse, and, although the disease continued to be reported in civilian life after the war, it was essentially a 'disease' of soldiers at war.

    The Epidemic of Heart Disease Amongst British Soldiers During the First World War · 1997 · DOI

  • Future scholarship should develop frameworks that capture the full moral, spiritual, and civilizational depth of the Palestinian question by integrating Islamic epistemic categories rather than compartmentalizing faith and politics.

    After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization · 2026 · DOI

  • Dabashi's framework needs to be extended beyond postcolonial humanism toward a genuinely decolonial project that reclaims Islamic moral vocabulary and is rooted in the spiritual, civilizational, and epistemic ethos of Islam as demonstrated in Rizvi's work.

    After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a conspicuous silence regarding Hamas and its role as a central actor in both resistance and the imagination of Palestine's future, raising critical questions about how Palestinian agency is framed and represented.

    After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization · 2026 · DOI

  • Dabashi's postcolonial framework largely omits Islam as a moral, political, and epistemic category in analysis of Palestine and envisioning of its future, revealing a significant epistemic limitation in his postcolonial scholarship.

    After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization · 2026 · DOI

  • Dabashi's portrayal of Palestine as merely another chapter of Western colonialism is analytically insufficient and does not adequately account for the contemporary conditions of the Palestinian genocide occurring within the framework of international conventions and human rights discourse.

    After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization · 2026 · DOI

  • Establishing independent family medicine departments in medical colleges and updating curricula are essential steps toward producing graduates with a strong orientation toward family medicine practice.

    Family medicine and primary health care in Iraq · 2025 · DOI

  • The reasons of this condition were insufficient nutrition, unsuitable and harmful hygienic, living and working conditions and brutality of the guards.

    Consequences of holocaust on physical health of survivors: bibliography review · 2020 · DOI

  • Yet organizations operating in these zones must learn the power dynamics in place and leverage social, cultural, or religious norms, which can vary widely from one town to the next, let alone country to country.

    Don’t Shoot the Ambulance · 2013 · DOI

  • Little is known about the impacts of military service on human capital and labor market outcomes due to an absence of data as well as sample selection: recruits are self-selected, screened, and selectively survive.

    The Consequences of Child Soldiering · 2010 · DOI

  • We will close with a discussion of what future research is needed to build an evidence base regarding mental health interventions for children affected by armed conflict as well as the ethical and feasibility issues associated with carrying out this work.

    Building an evidence base on mental health interventions for children affected by armed conflict · 2008 · DOI

  • Notwithstanding the significant limitations this puts upon their freedom of choice in childbirth, few Israeli women have ever probed the existence of this unique law or sought its demise.

    HOSPITAL BIRTH, MILITARY SERVICE AND THE TIES THAT BIND THEM: THE CASE OF ISRAEL · 2006 · DOI

  • Traditional policy tools such as neutral peacekeeping, preventive action, economic aid and other softer approaches all have important roles, but they are insufficient by themselves.

    Saving Lives with Force: An Agenda for Expanding the ACRI. (the Military Component) · 2002

  • Relations between these two nations remain unclear, although a plausible explanation for Egypt's support is the similar Islamic ideologies of the two governments.

    The Oils of War: Conflict in the Sudan. (Global Notebook) · 2002

  • After considerable research effort, only limited evidence has been found for environmental causation, and even many researchers sympathetic to veterans are doubtful that much more will be found.

    A Gulf of Difference: Disputes over Gulf War-Related Illnesses · 2001 · DOI

  • Britain's prewar policy, largely a propaganda campaign aimed at "impressing foreigners and soothing the public," was insufficiently funded to be effective.

    The Political Genesis of Air Raid Precautions and the York Raid of 1942 · 2000 · DOI

  • What happens in the treatment situation regarding rapport, communi- cation, and drop-out rate should be studied again with the current emphasis and salience of the War on Poverty.

    Some reactions of case workers to the War on Poverty · 1968 · DOI

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