A decade later, how much of Rwanda's musculoskeletal impairment is caused by the war in 1994 and by related violence?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Kuper, Hannah ^a   Atijosan, Oluwarantimi ^a,b   Rischewski, Dorothea ^a,c   Simms, Victoria ^a,d   Lavy, Chris ^e  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b FRIMLEY PARK HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c Financial Systems Development Section   (Germany)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOMICIDE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; RWANDA; SAMPLE SIZE; SCREENING TEST; SELF REPORT; VIOLENCE; WAR; AGED; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COMBAT DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR DISEASES; RWANDA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 70450172761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007720     Document Type: Article

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