Post-war Kosovo: Part 1. Assessment of prehospital emergency services

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 263-267

  Vanier, Vance K ^a   Vanrooyen, Michael J ^a   Lis, Julian ^a   Eliades, M James ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute care; capacity building; emergency departments; emergency medical care; emergency medical services; emergency physicians; evaluation; healthcare system; healthy policy; hospitals; infrastructure; Kosovo; prehospital; recovery; rehabilitation; training; urgjentes; war

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YUGOSLAVIA;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0035480758     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00043405     Document Type: Article

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