Seen but not heard: Injuries and deaths from landmines and unexploded ordnance in Chechnya, 1994-2005

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 507-512

  Bilukha, Oleg O ^a   Brennan, Muireann ^a   Anderson, Mark ^a   Tsitsaev, Zaur ^b   Murtazaeva, Eliza ^b   Ibragimov, Ramzan ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b United Nations Children's Fund Office for North Caucasus   (Russian Federation)

^c Voice of Mountains ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chechnya; injury; landmine; unexploded ordnance

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WAR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLAST INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXPLOSIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUSSIA; WAR;

EID: 52149087448     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00005331     Document Type: Article

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