Medical relief personnel in complex emergencies: Perceptions of effectiveness in the former Yugoslavia

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 145-149

  Vanrooyen, Michael J ^a   Eliades, M James ^a   Grabowski, Jurek G ^a   Stress, M E ^b   Juric, Josip ^c   Burkle, Frederick M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b FUHS The Chicago Medical School   (United States)

^c State Hospital Sarajevo   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

assessment; Bosnia; complex emergency; conflict; Croatia; epidemiological; epidemiology; health care; humanitarian assistance; medical relief; models; mortality; needs; personnel; trauma; war; Yugoslavia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CROATIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISASTER; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS; WAR;

BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; CROATIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; RESCUE WORK; WAR;

EID: 0035412099     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00025899     Document Type: Article

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