Fire victims: medical outcomes and demographic characteristics.
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Demographic characteristics, fire experiences, and distress of residential fire survivors.
The United States has one of the highest per capita fire death rates in the world. Death rates alone, however, fail to reflect the breadth of loss experienced by residential fire survivors. Despite the frequency of home fires and the potential for loss, little is known about this vulnerable population. Interviews were conducted with 440 fire survivors 14 weeks after fires. Demographic character...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1977
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.67.11.1077