Burden of surgically correctable disabilities among children in the Dadaab Refugee Camp

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1536-1543

  Wu, Victor K ^a   Poenaru, Dan ^a,b  

^a AIC KIJABE HOSPITAL   (Kenya)

^b not available   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONGENITAL DISORDER; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; KENYA; LIFE TABLE; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFUGEE; STATISTICS; SURGERY; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; LIFE TABLES; MALE; REFUGEES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84879800562     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-012-1899-z     Document Type: Article

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