Trends and characteristics of security incidents involving aid workers in health care settings: A 20-year review

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 265-273

  Morokuma, Nanami ^a   Chiu, Cindy H ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

delivery of health care; hospitals; humanitarian aid workers; violence; war crimes

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; STAFF; VACCINATION; VIOLENCE; WAR CRIME; WORKER; ADVERSE EVENT; ALTRUISM; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RELIEF WORK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WAR EXPOSURE;

ALTRUISM; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RELIEF WORK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SECURITY MEASURES; VIOLENCE; WAR EXPOSURE;

EID: 85067413338     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X19004333     Document Type: Article

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