Kuehne Anna, Roberts Leslie
Médecins Sans Frontières, Berlin, Germany.
Médecins Sans Frontières, London, UK.
Confl Health. 2021 Sep 16;15(1):68. doi: 10.1186/s13031-021-00405-1.
The Central African Republic (CAR) is one of the world's poorest and most fragile countries. Maybe there is no nation on the planet where the official health statistics are so poor. Evidence presented in this Conflict and Health themed collection to document humanitarian needs in CAR, suggests that UN statistics dramatically under-estimate the birth and death rates in conflict settings. To be current and valid, health indicator data in violent settings require more frequent measurement, more triangulation and granular exploration, and creative approaches based on few assumptions. In a world increasingly dependent on model driven data-data often inaccurate in conflict settings-we hope that this collection will allow those service providers and researchers operating in CAR to share their work and help us better learn how to learn. We particularly invite research from professionals working in CAR that documents humanitarian needs and presents indicators of population health where official estimates might not articulate the true extent of the health crisis.
中非共和国是世界上最贫穷、最脆弱的国家之一。地球上可能没有哪个国家的官方卫生统计数据如此糟糕。本以“冲突与健康”为主题的文集所呈现的证据，旨在记录中非共和国的人道主义需求，表明联合国的统计数据严重低估了冲突地区的出生率和死亡率。要使暴力环境中的健康指标数据保持最新且有效，就需要更频繁地进行测量、更多的三角测量和详细探究，以及基于极少假设的创新方法。在一个越来越依赖模型驱动数据的世界里——而这些数据在冲突环境中往往不准确——我们希望本文集能让那些在中非共和国开展工作的服务提供者和研究人员分享他们的工作，并帮助我们更好地学习如何去了解情况。我们特别邀请在中非共和国工作的专业人员进行研究，记录人道主义需求，并呈现官方估计可能无法明确健康危机真实程度的人口健康指标。
