Nutrition and disaster preparedness: Focusing on vulnerability, building capacities

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Wright, Marion E ^a   Vesala Husemann, Maija ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HÄME UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^c Public Health and Nutrition in a European Master's Programme in Disaster Relief Nursing/Health Care   (Finland)

Author keywords

Capacities; Community development; Disaster preparedness; Millennium Development Goals; Nutrition; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY NURSING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; KENYA; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION; NUTRITION SERVICE; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL CHANGE;

DISASTER PLANNING; HUMANS; KENYA; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION POLICY; SOCIAL CHANGE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33749643870     PISSN: 10913734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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