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Recognizing the Public Health Impact of Genocide
Brian M. Willis, JD, MPH;
Barry S. Levy, MD, MPH
JAMA. 2000;284:612-614.
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Recently, the scope of public health has expanded to include issues of war, humanitarian crisis, and violence.1-5 It is time to explicitly recognize genocide as another issue within the purview of public health. While such an acknowledgment may seem unnecessary, it is vital so that appropriate public health policies and interventions to prevent genocide or mitigate its public health ramifications can be developed and implemented.
International recognition of the human rights violations of genocide dates to 1946, when the United Nations General Assembly declared that genocide was "a crime under international law."6 Subsequently, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was enacted in 1951.7 Under the convention, genocide is defined as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, [such as]:
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Author Affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Portland, Ore (Mr Willis), and Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass (Dr Levy).
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