Learning through crisis: Development and implementation of a health cluster strategy for internally displaced persons;Apprendre grâce à la crise: Élaboration et mise en oeuvre d'une stratégie de groupe Santé en faveur des personnes déplacées

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL., 2010, Pages

  Bile, K M ^a   Shadoul, A F ^a   Raaijmakers, H ^a   Altaf, S ^b   Shabib, K ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Health ^*  (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; MEASLES VACCINE; POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE; TETANUS TOXOID;

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COORDINATION; DISASTER PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MASS IMMUNIZATION; MATERNAL CARE; MEASLES; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NATURAL DISASTER; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PAKISTAN; PERSONAL HYGIENE; POLIOMYELITIS; POPULATION DISPERSION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TETANUS; VECTOR CONTROL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 77957137413     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26719/2010.16.supp.82     Document Type: Article

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