Measuring the true human cost of natural disasters.
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Brunkard and colleagues provide a detailed assessment of direct mortality rates in Louisiana from Hurricane Katrina, the deadliest hurricane to strike the US Gulf Coast since 1928.1 The authors should be commended on their efforts because this solidly contributes to the evidencebased literature, but the scope of this examination needs to be expanded if we are to calculate the true human cost of the event.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
دوره 2 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008