Media coverage of violent deaths in Iraq: An opportunistic capture-recapture assessment

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 369-371

  Siegler, Anne ^a   Roberts, Leslie ^a   Balch, Erin ^a   Bargues, Emmanuel ^a   Bhalla, Asheesh ^a   Bills, Corey ^a   Dzeng, Elizabeth ^b   Epelboym, Yan ^a   Foster, Tory ^a   Fulton, Latressa ^a   Gallagher, Meghan ^a   Gastolomendo, Juan David ^a   Giorgi, Genessa ^a   Habtehans, Semhar ^a   Kim, Jennifer ^a   McGee, Blake ^a   McMahan, Andrew ^a   Riese, Sara ^a   Santamaria Schwartz, Rachel ^a   Walsh, Fiona ^a   Wahlstrom, Jessica ^a   Wedeles, John ^a   more..

^a Department of Population and Family Health Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

capture recapture; conflict; epidemiology; health; human rights; Iraq; Iraq Body Count (IBC); media coverage; mortality; reported deaths; war

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERVIEW; IRAQ; MASS MEDIUM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WAR;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; IRAQ; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MASS MEDIA; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 58149154191     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00006026     Document Type: Article

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