Civilian deaths from weapons used in the Syrian conflict

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 351, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Guha Sapir, Debarati ^a   Rodriguez Llanes, Jose M ^a   Hicks, Madelyn H ^b   Donneau, Anne Françoise ^c   Coutts, Adam ^d   Lillywhite, Louis ^e   Fouad, Fouad M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS   (United Kingdom)

^f AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT;

AIR BOMBARDMENT; BATTLE INJURY; BOMB; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CIVILIAN VIOLENT DEATH; CRIME; DISASTER VICTIM; EXECUTION; FEMALE; FIREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SHELLING; SHOOTING; SHORT SURVEY; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TREND STUDY; VIOLENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WAR; WEAPON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WARFARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SYRIA; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WARFARE; WEAPONS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84947211980     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h4736     Document Type: Short Survey

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