October 28, 2004

Iraq death rate study: Perhaps 100,000 civilian deaths since the war began

Been sick again today, but this sort of news item seems important.

There's a lot of coverage out there, but I'll go with my basic AP News on Yahoo. As a physical scientist, the procedure for coming up with these numbers has obvious flaws, but it seems to have a history of working relatively well. Doubling the national death rate of a country is far from a humanitarian success. Hard to figure out what else to say other than noting the 57 deaths per 1000 live births child death rate! Ouch.

Another link.

Link to the Lancet article, registration required.

Posted by duver001 at October 28, 2004 03:56 PM
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