WikiLeaks and Iraq body count: The sum of parts may not add up to the whole-a comparison of two tallies of Iraqi civilian deaths

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 223-229

  Carpenter, Dustin ^a   Fuller, Tova ^a   Roberts, Les ^b  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

armed conflict; deaths; epidemiology; Iraq; mortality; passive surveillance; sensitivity analysis; under reporting; violence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENTIALITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; MORTALITY; WAR;

CONFIDENTIALITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; MORTALITY;

EID: 84875000230     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X13000113     Document Type: Article

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