In the wake of Sri Lanka's tsunami: The health for the south capacity-building project

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 175-179

  O'Reilly, Gerard ^a,e   Fitzgerald, Mark ^a   Ariyananda, Pilane L ^d   Williams, Sue ^b   Smith, Leanne ^a   Jones, Tamsin ^a   Charlton, Sally ^a   Young, Simon ^c   Dziukas, Linas ^a   Fisher, Zoe ^a   Wragg, Sally ^a   Burke, Eliza ^a  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Government of Victoria ^*  (Australia)

^c ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Teaching Hospital Karapitiya   (Sri Lanka)

^e Emergency and Trauma Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developing country; Disasters; Emergency medicine; Multiple trauma; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY NURSE PRACTITIONER; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INJURY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STAFF; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SRI LANKA; TSUNAMI;

AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COALITIONS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; NATURAL DISASTERS; SRI LANKA;

EID: 41549136056     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2008.01071.x     Document Type: Review

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