Lessons learned at World Youth Day: Collecting data and using postcards at mass gatherings

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 273-277

  Hutton, Alison ^a   Roderick, Allison ^a   Munt, Rebecca ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

health; mass gatherings; nursing research; postcards; young people

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CROWDING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HISTORY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; SAFETY; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; ANNIVERSARIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS; CORRESPONDENCE AS TOPIC; CROWDING; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MASS BEHAVIOR; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77956998431     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00008153     Document Type: Article

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