Violent conflict and population health in the Middle East

Global Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 467-471

  Moran, Molly ^a   Khawaja, Marwan ^a   Khoshnood, Kaveh ^a   Ramahi, Tarik ^a   Inhorn, Marcia C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; CONFLICT; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LEBANON; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE EAST; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL WORK; VIOLENCE; WELLBEING; COPING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFUGEE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WAR;

HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE EAST; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFUGEES; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL JUSTICE; WAR;

EID: 79959352529     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2011.578581     Document Type: Editorial

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