HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE - LESSONS FROM THE GULF-WAR

Citation
Js. Boyle et Sm. Bunting, HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE - LESSONS FROM THE GULF-WAR, Advances in nursing science, 21(2), 1998, pp. 30-41
Citations number
32
Categorie Soggetti
Nursing
Journal title
ISSN journal
01619268
Volume
21
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
30 - 41
Database
ISI
SICI code
0161-9268(1998)21:2<30:HOTA-L>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
war is a major global threat to human health, not only in the immediat e effects of death and injury to the people, but also in the damage to infrastructures such as food, water, and power supplies and to social structures that support families, economies, and governments. Iraq's devastating aftershocks from the Gulf war include the physical and psy chologic effects of displacement, poverty, famine, disease, and enviro nmental destruction. Early nursing leaders vocally opposed World War I , and contemporary nurses should consider becoming activists in the pr imary and secondary prevention of this major global health problem.