Vulnerability of populations and the urban health care systems to nuclear weapon attack - Examples from four American cities

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bell, William C ^a   Dallas, Cham E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC WARFARE; CITY; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEORGIA; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; TERRORISM; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

CHICAGO; CITIES; DISASTER PLANNING; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; GEORGIA; HUMANS; NEW YORK CITY; NUCLEAR WARFARE; TERRORISM; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 33947426025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-6-5     Document Type: Article

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