Prevalence of unmet health care needs and description of health care-seeking behavior among displaced people after the 2007 California wildfires

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 3, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Jenkins, J Lee ^a   Hsu, Edbert B ^a   Sauer, Lauren M ^a   Hsieh, Yu Hsiang ^a   Kirsch, Thomas D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Displaced people; Health care seeking behavior; Unmet health care needs; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FIRE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFUGEE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FIRES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REFUGEES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67949124761     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 193844X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DMP.0b013e31819f1afc     Document Type: Article

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