TY - JOUR T1 - War in Ukraine: the impacts on child health JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 272 LP - 273 DO - 10.3399/bjgp22X719621 VL - 72 IS - 719 AU - Richard Armitage Y1 - 2022/06/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/72/719/272.abstract N2 - The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered an enormous humanitarian crisis that has inflicted, and continues to inflict, deep and enduring harms on human health. One of the groups most heavily affected, including the greatest impacts on health and wellbeing, is children.Prior to the outbreak of war, child health in Ukraine was heavily burdened by concerning rates of infant mortality, low provision of routine vaccinations, and high prevalence of infectious diseases including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.1 As such, the country’s over-stretched and under reform health system, which is officially state funded yet considerably supplemented by out-of-pocket payments,2 was poorly positioned to respond to the additional burdens of child health created by the war.Russian aggression has so far triggered over 13 million Ukrainians to flee their homes, including 5.4 million refugees who now reside in neighbouring European countries to the west of Ukraine,3 and 7.7 million internally displaced people who have left their homes but remain in Ukraine.4 The majority of these migrants are women and children, because the imposition of martial law on 24 February 2022, in preparation for potential military conscription, prohibits male citizens aged 18 to 60 years from leaving the country. As such, tens of thousands of families have been separated, and many children migrate unaccompanied, as parents remain at home to preserve … ER -