Revisiting Sphere: New standards of service delivery for new trends in protracted displacement

Disasters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 87-101

  McDougal, Lotus ^a   Beard, Jennifer ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Humanitarian guidelines; Humanitarian service delivery; Protracted displacement; Protracted refugee situations; Refugees; Sphere Standards

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY; REFUGEE; SERVICE PROVISION; STANDARD (REGULATION);

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; DISASTER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; REFUGEE; RELIEF WORK; STANDARD;

ALTRUISM; DISASTERS; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; REFUGEES; RELIEF WORK;

EID: 78650105149     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01194.x     Document Type: Article

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