A reassessment and review of the bam earthquake five years onward: What was done wrong?

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 453-460

  Motamedi, Mohammad Hosein Kalantar ^a   Saghafinia, Masoud ^a   Bafarani, Azadeh Hassani ^b   Panahi, Farzad ^a  

^a BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Department of emergency management   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bam earthquake; earthquake; Iran; management

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKE; HOUSING; HUMAN; IRAN; MENTAL STRESS; OPIATE ADDICTION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RELIEF WORK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKES; HOUSING; HUMANS; IRAN; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; OPIUM; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RELIEF WORK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78649733969     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00007317     Document Type: Review

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