Citation

Babaei-Ghazani A, Eftekhar Sadat B. Environ. Health Prev. Med. 2014; 19(2): 177.

Affiliation

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Japanese Society for Hygiene, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s12199-014-0381-y

PMID

24522832

Abstract

Every year in most earthquakes more than thousands of lives are lost, mainly in middle- and low-income countries. Disability and rehabilitation in third world countries could cause disastrous negative effect in living expense of families. So many preventable disabilities are result of these earthquakes and we hope reminding it will make a difference.

Language: en