Citation

Regens JL, Schultheiss A, Mould N. Front. Public Health 2015; 3: e198.

Affiliation

OU Center for Intelligence and National Security, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center , Oklahoma City, OK , USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Frontiers Editorial Office)

DOI

10.3389/fpubh.2015.00198

PMID

26347857

Abstract

The efficient allocation of medical resources to prepare for and respond to mass casualty events (MCEs) attributable to intentional acts of terrorism is a major challenge confronting disaster planners and emergency personnel. This research article examines variation in regional patterns in the causes of injures associated with 77,258 successful terrorist attacks that occurred between 1970 and 2013 involving the use of explosives, firearms, and/or incendiaries. The objective of this research is to estimate regional variation in the use of different conventional weapons in successful terrorist attacks in each world region on variation in injury cause distributions. Indeed, we find that the distributions of the number of injuries attributable to specific weapons types (i.e., by cause) vary greatly among the 13 world regions identified within the Global Terrorism Database.

Language: en