Medical evacuations and fatalities of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees field employees.
Open Access
- 8 March 2006
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Travel Medicine
- Vol. 8 (3) , 117-121
- https://doi.org/10.2310/7060.2001.24438
Abstract
Over the last 20 years, the number of conflicts and humanitarian interventions has steadily increased, as has the level of insecurity on operation sites. So far, little information is available concerning the morbidity and mortality of expatriates and local employees working in the field for humanitarian agencies.Keywords
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