Health and Human Rights in Chin State, Western Burma: A Population-Based Assessment Using Multistaged Household Cluster Sampling

Sollom and colleagues report the findings from a household survey study carried out in Western Burma; they report a high prevalence of human rights violations such as forced labor, food theft, forced displacement, beatings, and ethnic persecution

Health indicators measured or reported among households in Chin State.

<p>Health indicators measured or reported among households in Chin State.</p

Proportion of reported crimes against humanity, by alleged perpetrator.

<p>Proportion of reported crimes against humanity, by alleged perpetrator.</p

Summary of cluster and household coverage and participation.

<p>Summary of cluster and household coverage and participation.</p

Association between moderate/severe household hunger and human rights violations.

<p>Parameter estimates and their 95% confidence intervals are adjusted for the complex survey design. Statistically significant associations are in <b>bold</b>.</p>a<p>Total number of households responding to questions related to household hunger and the human rights violation specific to that row.</p>b<p>Poisson distribution used to estimated relative prevalence rate as nearly all families reporting exposure to this violation also met the criteria for moderate/severe household hunger.</p><p>HH, household; PRR, prevalence rate ratio.</p

Multivariate associations between moderate/severe household hunger and selected human rights violations, crude and adjusted for other covariates.

<p>Model 1 adjusted for forced movement, forced labor, crop destruction by rats, rural, Christian religion and household size.</p><p>Model 2 adjusted for all covariates.</p>a<p>Includes forced to give food, destruction of crops, and killing/theft of livestock.</p>b<p>Includes wounded or killed from gunshot or explosion; beaten or tortured; and sexually assaulted or other inhumane act.</p>c<p>Includes forced conscription of a child or adult; detained or imprisoned; kidnapped or disappeared <a href="http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001007#pmed.1001007-Amnesty1" target="_blank">[24]</a>; and religious or ethnic persecution.</p><p>AdjPRR, adjusted prevalence rate ratio.</p

Map of Burma.

<p>Map of Burma.</p