Dr Glenn Rangwala

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More or Less · The week that kills · 10 Jan 2014 podcast

Some people are just counting the immediate victims of acts of violence.

They just tally the number of death reports that come in from morgues and police stations and from journalists.

that are attributing deaths to violent conflict and generally come to something in the range of 120,000 people up to the present day.

Many people from the US Army to the Iraqi government to a British organisation called Iraq Body Count do that.

However, not all deaths that occur in a conflict

are caused by immediate acts of violence.

So how do we try and record those deaths?

So what a number of organisations and institutes have tried to do have been to do a sample-based survey within Iraq.

So they've asked at households...

whether any members who were resident ordinarily at that household have died.

And then they've extrapolated from that to a crude death rate in the country.

So how many people per thousand per year are dying in Iraq?

And have compared that to the pre-invasion death rate.

So probably the most famous study was one conducted by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

in 2006, published in The Lancet, which found that that gap between the pre-invasion death rate and the post-invasion death rate is then scaled up to produce a figure of 655,000, what are called in the terminology, excess deaths that have occurred in Iraq in that period of three, just three and a half years.

John Pilger was drawing upon a series of polls conducted by a London-based organisation called Opinion Research Business, which conducted these polls in Iraq, asking people if any of their family members had died in the conflict from violent causes.

And extrapolating from that, they came to a figure, firstly, of 1.2 million, later 1 million deaths in Iraq.

Unfortunately, that organisation I don't think has produced the most reliable data

study of death in Iraq since 2003.

There have been five other studies of much greater detail with clear methodological review.

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