Prehospital care of tsunami victims in Thailand: Description and analysis

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 204-210

  Schwartz, Dagan ^a   Goldberg, Avishay ^a   Ashkenasi, Issac ^a,b,c   Nakash, Guy ^c   Pelts, Rami ^c   Leiba, Adi ^a,c   Levi, Yeheskel ^c   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^a,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Medical Corps   (Israel)

^c MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

Author keywords

assessment; disaster planning; health clinic; healthcare system; response; restructuring; tsunami

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; THAILAND;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; NATURAL DISASTERS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; THAILAND;

EID: 33748093110     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X0000368X     Document Type: Article

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