The professionalization of humanitarian health assistance: Report of a survey on what humanitarian health workers tell Us

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue SUPPL.2, 2009, Pages

  Kene, Mamata ^a   Pack, Mary E ^b   Greenough, P Gregg ^a,c   Burkle, Frederick M ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

humanitarian workers; humanitarianism; non governmental organization; professionalization

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING;

ALTRUISM; DATA COLLECTION; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 73949098213     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00021610     Document Type: Article

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