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Vulnerability of populations and the urban health care systems to nuclear weapon attack – examples from four American cities

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Health Geographics, February 2007
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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37 news outlets
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Citations

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Title
Vulnerability of populations and the urban health care systems to nuclear weapon attack – examples from four American cities
Published in
International Journal of Health Geographics, February 2007
DOI 10.1186/1476-072x-6-5
Pubmed ID
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.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
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 %
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 %
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%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 305. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 March 2024.
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#112,914
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Outputs from International Journal of Health Geographics
#3
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Outputs of similar age
#150
of 90,152 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Health Geographics
#1
of 5 outputs
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