A blueprint for professionalizing humanitarian assistance

Health Affairs

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2223-2230

  Walker, Peter ^a   Hein, Karen ^a   Russ, Catherine ^b   Bertleff, Greg ^c   Caspersz, Dan ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Learning and development programs for RedR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; UNITED NATIONS;

ALTRUISM; DATA COLLECTION; FOCUS GROUPS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 79952751150     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.1023     Document Type: Article

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