Science and politics of disaster death tolls

BMJ. 2018 Sep 24:362:k4005. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k4005.

Authors

Debarati Guha-Sapir¹, Francesco Checchi²

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Institute for Health and Society, University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium debarati.guha@uclouvain.be.
² Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

PMID: 30249620
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k4005

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Bayes Theorem
Cyclonic Storms / mortality*
Data Accuracy
Disaster Planning
Disasters / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Politics*
Public Opinion