The underreporting of landmine and explosive remnants of war injuries in Cambodia, the Lao people's democratic republic and Viet Nam

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 234-236

  Durham, Jo ^a   Hill, Peter S ^a   Hoy, Damian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; CAMBODIA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXPLOSIVE REMNANT OF WAR; HUMAN; LANDMINE; LAOS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; VIET NAM; WEAPON;

BLAST INJURIES; CAMBODIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATA COLLECTION; EXPLOSIVE AGENTS; HUMANS; LAOS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PUBLICATION BIAS; VIETNAM; WAR; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84878463999     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.12.110411     Document Type: Note

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