The Impact of War, Adult Hiv/Aids, and Militarization on Young Children's Mortality

Carlton‐Ford, Steve

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“…Military spending is detrimental, presumably coming at the expense of investments in social programs and other measures that meet basic needs. Expanding previous studies showing long-term detrimental effects of major armed conflict and ''food wars'' on hunger and economic and social development (Messer, Cohen, and D'Costa 1998;Carlton-Ford, Hamill, and Houston 2000;Carlton-Ford 2005), we also found that wars had short-term detrimental effects, and containing these conflicts was beneficial to the human security of developing countries. Among our more important findings is the effect of gender equity.…”

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“…Armed conflicts in terms of civil wars and geno/politicides contribute to child hunger (Jenkins and Scanlan 2001;Scanlan and Jenkins 2001;Scanlan 2003Scanlan , 2004. Related literature shows that interstate and internal war contribute to child mortality, largely due to negative war effects on women's literacy and general access to safe water (Carlton-Ford, Hamill, and Houston 2000;Carlton-Ford 2005).…”

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Military Famine, Human Rights, and Child Hunger

Jenkins

Scanlan

Peterson

2007

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Discussions of world hunger have focused on economic growth and international food aid, assuming that food supply is the critical issue. The authors show that food access rooted in social stratification and military power is the central problem. Synthesizing the entitlement and military famine approaches to hunger, the authors examine the effects of food supply, economic growth, social stratification, and military power on child hunger in less developed countries (1990-2000) using a cross-national analysis. Child hunger is largely due to gender stratification, militarization, and armed conflict. Halting wars, expanding political rights, and improving gender equity reduce child hunger. Economic growth and programmatic international food aid reduce child hunger, but there are no benefits from increased total food supply or international emergency relief. Child hunger is an access problem best addressed by expanding social and political rights, reducing armed conflict and militarization, and improving women's status. Early warning and relief efforts should focus on these concerns instead of the ``supply'' concerns traditionally emphasized.

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Military Famine, Human Rights, and Child Hunger

Jenkins

Scanlan

Peterson

2007

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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“…Research typically finds that social militarization appears to improve the general quality of life and reduce both infant and child mortality (e.g., Bullock & Firebaugh, 1990; Carlton-Ford, 2005, 2011; Kick, Nasser, Davis, & Bean, 1990). The beneficial effect of social militarization holds across all levels of military spending, but military spending typically has little effect once researchers control for social militarization.…”

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Guns and Butter: Child Mortality and the Mediators of Militarization

Carlton‐Ford

Durante

Evans

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Armed Forces & Society

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Which types of militarization affect child mortality? Which type appears to lower it; which appears to push it higher? This article focuses on social militarization (i.e., troops as a proportion of workforce-aged population) and praetorian militarization (i.e., the military’s control or strong influence over the government), investigating their impact on child mortality using pooled time series analysis covering 142 countries from 1996 through 2008. We find that social and praetorian militarization have opposite effects even after controlling for potentially confounding influences. Access to basic public health infrastructures and education mediates between each type of militarization and child mortality.

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“…Cambodia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Liberia) appear either to have improved less or to have worsened (Stewart et al, 2001a). Similarly, mortality rates for young children are higher in countries with wars than in other countries, even after controlling for changes in both foreign debt and in national wealth (Carlton-Ford, 2004a), for differences in religious composition, military participation, women's literacy and access to safe water (Carlton-Ford, 2005;Carlton-Ford et al, 2000), or for health spending, urban growth, income inequality, education, political structure, ethnic composition and differences in climate (e.g. Fearon and Laitin, 2003).…”

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Civil War and Life Chances

Carlton‐Ford

Boop

2010

International Sociology

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Civil war adversely affects life chances (i.e. economic well-being, food production and education) that are key to social and economic development; civil war and these life chances all, potentially, affect the most basic life chance -mortality. Results show that civil war worsens child mortality despite controls for other life chances. In contrast, civil war accounts for much of the impact of other life chances on child mortality. Information comes from 175 countries from 1985 through 1998. Given the broad and persistent impact of civil war, future research concerned with social and economic development and, ultimately, the life chances of the masses should consider civil war as a factor in their theories and analyses.

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The Impact of War, Adult Hiv/Aids, and Militarization on Young Children's Mortality

Cited by 9 publications

References 27 publications

Military Famine, Human Rights, and Child Hunger

Military Famine, Human Rights, and Child Hunger

Guns and Butter: Child Mortality and the Mediators of Militarization

Civil War and Life Chances

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