Health toll of the Vietnam war has lasted generations
23 July 2019
Professor Nora Groce (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care) explains that higher rates of disability persist in Vietnam for people born as long as 15 years after the end of the war.
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History often focuses on the immediate death toll of war but what about the longer-term impacts on health?