Title |
Vulnerability of populations and the urban health care systems to nuclear weapon attack – examples from four American cities
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Published in |
International Journal of Health Geographics, February 2007
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DOI | 10.1186/1476-072x-6-5 |
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Authors |
William C Bell, Cham E Dallas |
Abstract |
The threat posed by the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) within the United States has grown significantly in recent years, focusing attention on the medical and public health disaster capabilities of the nation in a large scale crisis. While the hundreds of thousands or millions of casualties resulting from a nuclear weapon would, in and of itself, overwhelm our current medical response capabilities, the response dilemma is further exacerbated in that these resources themselves would be significantly at risk. There are many limitations on the resources needed for mass casualty management, such as access to sufficient hospital beds including specialized beds for burn victims, respiration and supportive therapy, pharmaceutical intervention, and mass decontamination. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 2 | 40% |
Unknown | 3 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 5 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Germany | 2 | 2% |
Turkey | 1 | 1% |
Canada | 1 | 1% |
Mexico | 1 | 1% |
United States | 1 | 1% |
Unknown | 77 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Researcher | 14 | 17% |
Student > Master | 13 | 16% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 11% |
Unspecified | 8 | 10% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 7% |
Other | 19 | 23% |
Unknown | 14 | 17% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 13% |
Social Sciences | 8 | 10% |
Unspecified | 8 | 10% |
Computer Science | 6 | 7% |
Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 5% |
Other | 28 | 34% |
Unknown | 18 | 22% |