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Beyond Crisis: The Ukraine War’s Multifaceted Impact on Poland’s Health Care Resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2024

Krzysztof Goniewicz Open the ORCID record for Krzysztof Goniewicz [Opens in a new window]  and
Katarzyna Naylor Open the ORCID record for Katarzyna Naylor [Opens in a new window]
Krzysztof Goniewicz*
Affiliation:
Department of Security Studies, Polish Air Force University, Poland
Katarzyna Naylor
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
*
Correspondence: Krzysztof Goniewicz Polish Air Force Academy Deblin 08-521 Poland E-mail: [email protected]
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emergency departmenthealth care resiliencePolandrefugee crisisUkraine War
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , August 2024 , pp. 315 - 317
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

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Footnotes

Editor’s Note: This manuscript was peer-reviewed and accepted under the Emeritus Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the journal, Dr. Sam Stratton. The current EIC, Dr. Jeffrey Franc, acknowledges Dr. Stratton’s contributions in relation to the acceptance and publication of this article.

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