INTRODUCTION The media have an important role in maintaining and creating social relations and social environment. This especially refers to the war and post-war period in which the media can form a part of the prevention context, i.e., the media can facilitate the process of recovery from war trauma, but they can also contribute to stigmatization and retraumatization. Our aim was to analyze Cr...

The invasion of Ukraine has been difficult to watch for individuals around the world. Feelings disbelief and helplessness arise as violent images murdered children, bombed apartment buildings shelters, fleeing families waiting in freezing temperatures at border crossings flash across our screens. This is especially challenging survivors World War II (WWII) their descendants, particularly Holoca...

Conflict between and within countries can have lasting health and economic consequences, but identifying such effects can be empirically challenging. This paper uses household survey data from Eritrea to estimate the effect of exposure to the 1998-2000 Eritrea-Ethiopia war on children's health. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timi...

The article describes the epidemiological characteristics of Q fever in Croatia, during the period before and after the Homeland War. In the ten years prior to the Homeland War (1983-1992) 1053 cases of Q fever were recorded, 16.2% (171) of which on islands and in coastal areas. In the period after the Homeland War (1995-2008), a total of 654 cases was recorded, 59.9% (392) of which on islands ...

The aim of this paper is to analyse some macroeconomic channels operating in a war economy. At the theoretical level, the effects of such war on the key economic variables capital, technology, uncertainty, and the government’s fiscal deficit are discussed before proceeding to the analysis of individuals, firms and the government. These elements are combined in a dynamic macroeconomic model to s...

Background: The War in Yemen, which started in March 2015, has had many effects on patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). We conducted this study to analyze the effect of war on type 2 diabetics at our clinic. Patients and methods: We studied 430 patients attending an endocrinology clinic in Sana’a, Yemen from September 2015 to January 2016. Of the total, 229 were female and 201 were male...

The need for a new way of thinking in our nuclear age has been lately affirmed by many. Man has become all too powerful; so great is his might that he can annihilate all life on the Earth, his own kind included, a situation that was deemed unthinkable early in this century. Under these new conditions, man cannot afford to think and act solely in terms of the welfare of his own kin, his own comm...

Previous studies show that public discourse and social media around the Covid-19 pandemic heavily use war framing, despite fact its misuse inaptness to elaborate all aspects of were already noted. This paper analyses conceptual metaphors in Croatian (social) on pandemic, focusing metaphor. Using a specialized corpus manually chosen relevant texts Croatian, compiled for this purpose, we investig...