The need for measures to prevent "solitary deaths" after large earthquakes - Based on current conditions following the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 527-528

  Fujita, Yoshitsugu ^a   Inoue, Ken ^b   Seki, Nobuhiko ^c   Inoue, Takeo ^a   Sakuta, Akira ^d   Miyazawa, Teruomi ^a   Eguchi, Kenji ^c  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Seigakuin Schools   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEATH; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; INJURY; JAPAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VICTIM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOUSING; HUMANS; JAPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 52749084531     PISSN: 1752928X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2008.05.005     Document Type: Article

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