The consequence of land mines on public health

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 2-10

  Kakar, Faiz ^a,b   Bassani, Fabrizio ^a   Romer, C J ^a   Gunn, S W A ^a,c  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Islamic University of Afghanistan   (Pakistan)

^c World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

anti personnel mines; community health workers; diarrhea; disaster medicine; first aid; Geneva Conventions; humanitarian medicine; land mines; malnutrition; military recycling; nongovernmental organizations; peace; post traumatic stress disorder; primary health care clinics; prostheses; public health; rehabilitation; resource allocation; surgery; trauma; United Nations; war; waterborne diseases; World Health Organization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; CHILD; EXPLOSION; HEALTH; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; VIOLENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; CHILD; EXPLOSIONS; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; VIOLENCE; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0029688843     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00042278     Document Type: Article

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