TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - War is an unjustifiable man-made disaster within the Eastern Mediterranean Region
JO  - World family medicine journal
A1  - Rezaeian, Mohsen
SP  - 14
EP  - 16
VL  - 6
IS  - 6
N2  - According to the statistics in the year 2000, mortality caused by war-re- lated injuries has been estimated to be the 18th leading cause of death in Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) of the World Health Organi- zation (WHO), which justifies paying more attention to it. Therefore, this report tries to disclose the different patterns of age and sex groups' mor- tality rates caused by war-related in- juries in the year 2000 within EMR. It also discusses the health impacts of the most recent war within region i.e. the war in Iraq on the above patterns in order to highlights that this war is enormously deteriorated the fragile situations within region.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1839-0188
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -