Barriers to disaster coordination: Health sector coordination in Banda Aceh following the South Asia Tsunami

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL.1, 2006, Pages

  Zoraster, Richard M ^a  

^a Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

coordination; disaster; humanitarian; international; management; non governmental organization (NGO); relief; tsunami; World Health Organization (WHO)

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ASIA; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; INDONESIA; RELIEF WORK; TSUNAMI; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

ALTRUISM; ASIA; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; HUMANS; INDONESIA; RELIEF WORK; TSUNAMIS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NATURAL DISASTERS;

EID: 33646582351     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X0001582X     Document Type: Article

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