Home > News > Journal of ERW and Mine Action features the Study of ERW Accidents in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam

Dong Ha, Quang Tri (October 20, 2014)

A study of explosive remnants of war (ERW) accidents in Quang Tri, Vietnam by Phung Tran Kim, M.D., Ph.D. [Quang Tri Province Department of Health] and Nam Hoang
[Quang Tri Province Department of Foreign Affairs]was featured in the Journal of ERW and Mine Action, Issue 15.1, Summer 2011.

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Total number of ERW casualties, including fatalities, for five-year periods from 1975–2010. There is a reduction in the number of injuries and death over time.

Total number of ERW casualties, including fatalities, for five-year periods from 1975–2010. There is a reduction in the number of injuries and death over time.

The purpose of the study discussed in this article was to determine statistical findings, as well as the knowledge, attitude, practices and beliefs of the affected population, regarding the number of explosive-remnants-of-war victims in Quang Tri province, Vietnam, from the end of the American-Vietnam War in 1975 through 2010. Click here to read more.

Please click here to download the study.

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