Unsafe Ground: Epidemiological Insights into the Health Impacts of Landmines - Stacey Pizzino

Explosive ordnance, including landmines, are the enduring legacy of war and threaten the health of affected communities across generations. For civilians within these communities, visible consequences are obvious and severe. However, there is a paucity of research evaluating the health impacts of these weapons; consequently, affected communities are often absent in global metrics.
This research addresses this knowledge gap by providing the world’s largest study of landmine and EO casualties evaluating mortality and non-fatal injury. Using the Hardly Reached Data (HARD) framework, developed as part of this research, data was collected from over 100,000 casualties across 17 countries. These data were pooled and analyzed to provide estimates of case fatality, mortality predictors, trauma distribution, and injury patterns.
This event was organized by the WADEM Pediatric Disaster Medicine Special Interest Group (SIG) and moderated by Dr. Ashley Kane and Dr. Lea Sarna Cahan.