The 'Dirty War Index:' A new tool to identify rates of prohibited or undesirable war outcomes
Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 04:21
in Health & Medicine
Researchers in this week's PLoS Medicine present a new tool called the "Dirty War Index (DWI)" based on the laws of war, a tool which identifies rates of prohibited or highly undesirable ("dirty") war outcomes, such as torture, child injury, and civilian death.