Patterns of civilian and child deaths due to war-related violence in Syria: a comparative analysis from the Violation Documentation Center dataset, 2011–16

The Lancet Global Health

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2018, Pages e103-e110

  Guha Sapir, Debarati ^a   Schlüter, Benjamin ^a   Rodriguez Llanes, Jose Manuel ^a   Lillywhite, Louis ^b   Hicks, Madelyn Hsiao Rei ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Centre on Global Health Security   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CIVILIAN DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH; EXPLOSION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOOT; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TREND STUDY; WAR; WAR CRIME; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; VIOLENCE; WARFARE;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; SYRIA; VIOLENCE; WARFARE;

EID: 85037647736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2214109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30469-2     Document Type: Article

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