Civilian deaths from weapons used in the Syrian conflict.
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1Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Institute of Health and Society, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; 2Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA; 3Department of Public Health, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium; 4Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge, UK; 5Chatham House Centre for Global Health Security, London, UK; 6Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- BMJ
دوره 351 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015