'But for the Hurricane': Measuring natural disaster mortality over the long term

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 149-151

  Uscher Pines, Lori ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

DISASTER PLANNING; HUMANS; MORTALITY; NATURAL DISASTERS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547842635     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00004544     Document Type: Letter

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