Croatian Medical Journal
Volume 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 72-76

Challenge of goodness: Twelve humanitarian proposals based on the experience of 1991-1995 wars in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (Article)

Lang S.*
  • a Department of Social Medicine, Andrija Stampar Sch. of Pub. Hlth., Zagreb University School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia, Department of Social Medicine, Andrija Stampar Sch. of Pub. Hlth., Zagreb University School of Medicine, Rockefellerova 4, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Based on the 1991-1995 war experience of peoples of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, I made twelve proposals regarding the following aspects of health, humanitarian work, and human rights: 1. Broadening of the WHO definition of health by including spiritual well-being (absence of hatred) in it, 2. Inclusion of the term genocide into the Index Medicus (MeSH), 3. Establishment of concepts of prevention of hate, 4. Right to a home, 5. Right of civilians to participate in defense and renewal, 6. Right to deliberation from enslavement and right to find out the fate of missing persons, 7. Global hospital, 8. Monitoring of prisoner-of-war camps, 9. Refugee camps, 10. Providing of care for the abandoned - a new category of people suffering in war, 11. Introduction of the Helping Hand concept, 12. Organization of the Red Cross Forum after the cessation of hostilities. The fundamental objective was to establish the legitimacy of honesty in practice, regulative social mechanisms, and science.

Author Keywords

World Health Organization human rights War Refugees Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia

Index Keywords

red cross Civil Defense home refugee Croatia human wellbeing Relief Work prisoner war Prisoners Bosnia and Herzegovina United Nations hospital care human rights Bosnia-Herzegovina Humans health services Article health care world health organization hostility

Link
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ISSN: 03539504
Cited by: 13
Original Language: English