A failure of resilience: Estimating response of New York City's public health ecosystem to sudden disaster

Health and Place

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 545-550

  Wallace, Rodrick ^a   Wallace, Deborah ^a   Ahern, Jennifer ^a   Galea, Sandro ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem; Epidemiology; Health; HIV; Homicide; Resilience

Indexed keywords

DISASTER; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; METHODOLOGY; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACIAL SEGREGATION;

ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISASTER; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS; UNITED STATES;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846346922     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.07.006     Document Type: Article

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