Casualties of the global war on terror and their future impact on health care and society: A looming public health crisis

Military Medicine

Volumn 179, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 348-355

  Baker, Michael S ^a,b  

^a John Muir Hospital   (United States)

^b Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERRORISM; WAR;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; PUBLIC HEALTH; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERRORISM;

EID: 84906283696     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: 1930613X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-13-00471     Document Type: Article

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