Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey

Les Roberts, Riyadh Lafta, Richard Garfield, Jamal Khudhairi, Gilbert Burnham

Background

In March, 2003, military forces, mainly from the USA and the UK, invaded Iraq. We did a survey to

compare mortality during the period of 14·6 months before the invasion with the 17·8 months after it.