"Just-in-time" mental health training and surveillance for the Project HOPE mission

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 10 SUPPL., 2006, Pages 63-65

  Benedek, David M ^a   Ritchie, Elspeth Cameron ^b  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Virginia Office of the Surgeon General   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; INCIDENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; REVIEW; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TRAINING; TSUNAMI;

EID: 33750072300     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/milmed.171.1s.63     Document Type: Review

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