Health impacts of the 2005 flood events on feedlot farm families in southern Alberta, Canada

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 103, Issue , 2007, Pages 253-262

  Acharya, M P ^a   Kalischuk, R G ^a   Klein, K K ^a   Bjornlund, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

2005 flood events; Canada; Feedlot farm families; Health care services; Health impacts; Isolation and helplessness; Mental health problems; Southern Alberta

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; FLOODING; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH SERVICES; MENTAL HEALTH; RAINFALL;

ALBERTA; CANADA; LETHBRIDGE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 38849134125     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/WRM070241     Document Type: Article

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