Integrating reproductive health into emergency response assessments and primary health care

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 223-230

  Goodyear, Lorelei ^a   Hynes, Michelle ^b  

^a EngenderHealth   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment tools; complex emergencies; health services; internally displaced persons; primary health care; rapid assessment; refugee women; refugees; reproductive health; war affected populations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCTION; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0035480759     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X0004334X     Document Type: Article

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