Editorial: Great east Japan earthquake and early mental-health-care response

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 539-548

  Kim, Yoshiharu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

DELIRIUM; EARTHQUAKE; ETHICS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL HEALTH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REVIEW; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TSUNAMI; DISASTER; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; JAPAN;

DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY SERVICES, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; JAPAN;

EID: 80054986161     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2011.02270.x     Document Type: Review

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