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Reducing Landmine Mortality Rates in Iran Using Public Medical Education and Rural Rescue Teams—What Can be Learned from Landmine Casualties, and How Can the Situation be Improved?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Yoav Arnson  and
Yaron Bar-Dayan
Yoav Arnson*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine ‘D’, Meir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Yaron Bar-Dayan
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine ‘D’, Meir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba, Israel; Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
*
bardayan@netvision.net.il
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 130 - 132
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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