Europe's refugee crisis: An urgent call for moral leadership

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 351, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Abbasi, Kamran ^b   Patel, Kiran ^a   Godlee, Fiona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA; CONFLICT; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; JORDAN; LEADERSHIP; LEBANON; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRANT; MORALITY; OPTIMISM; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUGEE; RELIGION; SOUTH ASIA; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WAR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; POLICY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

EUROPE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; PUBLIC POLICY; REFUGEES; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84947472626     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h4833     Document Type: Editorial

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