Military assistance in complex emergencies: What have we learned since the Kurdish relief effort?

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 197-208

  Sharp, Trueman W ^a   Wightman, John M ^a   Davis, Michael J ^b   Sherman, Sterling S ^c   Burkle, Frederick M ^b  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

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

^c NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Africa; complex emergency; East Timor; Former Yugoslavia; Haiti; Iraq; Kurdish relief effort; military humanitarian assistance; peacekeeping; Somalia

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; DISASTER; EMERGENCY; HEALTH; HUMAN; IRAQ; MILITARY MEDICINE; SOMALIA; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED STATES; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; ALTRUISM; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; IRAQ; MILITARY MEDICINE; RELIEF WORK; SOMALIA; TURKEY; UNITED STATES; WAR; WORLD HEALTH; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0035480826     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00043314     Document Type: Article

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