Health tracking for improved humanitarian performance

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 377-383

  Mock, Nancy ^a,b   Garfield, Richard ^c  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Recovery Action Learning Laboratory   (United States)

^c Department of Clinical International Nursing Columbia University School of Nursing ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

data collection; displacement crisis; enumeration; health tracking efforts; humanitarian health information; statistics

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ALTRUISM; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38449119967     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00005082     Document Type: Article

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