Abstract
The limited number of tools and resources available to guide emergency response in conflict settings is particularly grim. In order to improve response in areas impacted by emergencies, responders need new frameworks to guide the inclusion of wider macro-level determinants such as conflict throughout the program cycle. The Conflict Determinant Model (CDM) provides a theoretical base for emergency responders, public health professionals, and social scientists to include the social determinants of health in their programming and for analysis of the impact of conflict on health status. By considering conflict as a macro-level determinant of health, responders and agencies can design high quality contextually relevant programming that identifies and responds to the wider social inequalities that create conflict. We propose five uses of the CDM: Health disparity analysis, community engagement, program design, impact measurement, and monitoring and evaluation tool development. When applied in the program cycle for emergency programs, CDM improves the understanding, application, and analysis of conflict as a determinant of health. CDM informs the evidence base needed for effective and efficient response in conflict settings.
Citation
Martin LS and Evans DP. Conflict as a Social Determinant of Health. SM J Public Health Epidemiol. 2015;1(2):1008.