هذه الصفحة لم تتم ترجمتها إلى اللغة العربية بعد. يمكنكم الحصول على ترجمة ألية من غوغل ولكن كونوا على علم بأن الترجمة الآلية ليست موثوقة ويمكن أن تشوه المعنى. وقد تم توفير هذه الخدمة كوسيلة مساعدة فقط. وينبغي عدم اعتمادها في الاستشهاد بوجهات نظر المشروع. وعند الحاجة للاقتباس يرجى طلب ترجمة احترافية لهذه الصفحة.
Many experts and expert groups from a range of fields are attempting to combine their knowledge to understand the lethality to Iraqis of the invasion and post-invasion violence in Iraq.
This is a slightly abridged and amended version of an invited "meta-analysis" of IBC's potential contribution to that understanding, presented in a closed meeting of the Ad Hoc Expert Group on mortality estimates for Iraq, convened by WHO in Geneva, May 2007.
1. Completeness (a):
Some key issues:
- “Overcounting” is unlikely, given the systematic checks that IBC has developed for avoiding double counting and for weeding out instances of misreporting (see pertinent section of IBC’s Methods).
- We assume that reporting is incomplete; the key question is, by how much.
- The information within the database itself provides new assessment tools, as will be shown later in this presentation.
- A standard, and important, assessment method is to use nearly-comparable but non-media dependent data, when available. From April 2004 to December 2006 the Iraqi Ministry of Health irregularly issued cumulative death totals (shown on next page).