Trauma in Papua New Guinea: What do we know and where do we go?

Papua and New Guinea Medical Journal

Volumn , Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-125

  Watters, David A K ^a   Dyke, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PENETRATING TRAUMA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIOLENCE;

ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW GUINEA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; VIOLENCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0030154056     PISSN: 00311480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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