Impact of disaster-related mortality on gross domestic product in the WHO African region

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Kirigia, Joses M ^a   Sambo, Luis G ^a   Aldis, William ^b   Mwabu, Germano M ^c  

^a WHO REGIONAL OFFICE FOR AFRICA   (Congo)

^b WHO Country Office   (Malawi)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 2442695318     PISSN: 1471227X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-4-1     Document Type: Article

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