The correlation between burn mortality rates from fire and flame and economic status of countries

Burns

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1054-1059

  Peck, Michael ^a,b   Pressman, Melissa A ^a,b  

^a MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn mortality; Income groups; Poverty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BRAZIL; BURN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; COLOMBIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FIRE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIA; MONACO; MORTALITY; MYANMAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SINGAPORE;

BURN MORTALITY; INCOME GROUPS; POVERTY;

BURNS; ECONOMICS; FIRES; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HUMANS; INCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84880965472     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: 18791409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2013.04.010     Document Type: Article

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