Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: Analysis of data from world health survey programme

BMJ

Volumn 336, Issue 7659, 2008, Pages 1482-1486

  Obermeyer, Ziad ^a,b   Murray, Christopher J L ^a   Gakidou, Emmanuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; VIET NAM; VIOLENCE; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; VIOLENCE; WAR; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 47149102899     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a137     Document Type: Article

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