Summer 2006 war on Lebanon: A lesson in community resilience

Global Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 505-519

  Nuwayhid, Iman ^a   Zurayk, Huda ^a   Yamout, Rouham ^a   Cortas, Chadi S ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Internally displaced persons (IDPs); Lebanon; Resilience; War

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY RESILIENCE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LEBANON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; WAR; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; GROUP PROCESS; ISLAM; MIGRATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REFUGEE; RELIEF WORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; ISLAM; LEBANON; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REFUGEES; RELIEF WORK; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WAR;

EID: 79959344090     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2011.557666     Document Type: Article

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