Emergency and essential surgical services in afghanistan: Still a missing challenge

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 473-479

  Contini, Sandro ^a   Taqdeer, Asadullah ^b   Cherian, Meena ^b   Shokohmand, Ahmad Shah ^c   Gosselin, Richard ^d   Graaff, Peter ^b   Noel, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c Ministry of Public Health   (Afghanistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MANPOWER; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURGERY; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AFGHANISTAN; ANESTHESIOLOGY; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 77949273278     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-010-0406-7     Document Type: Article

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