Guidelines for non-medical care providers to detect illnesses in elderly evacuees after the 2011 earthquake off the pacific coast of Tohoku

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2189-2191

  Morimoto, Shigeto ^a   Iijima, Katsuya ^b   Kuzuya, Masafumi ^c   Hattori, Hideyuki ^d   Yokono, Koichi ^e   Takahashi, Takashi ^f  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^e KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAREGIVER; EARTHQUAKE; ELDERLY CARE; EPIDEMIC; GASTROENTERITIS; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONMEDICAL CARE PROVIDER; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

AGED; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY SHELTER; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; JAPAN; RELIEF WORK;

EID: 81755161271     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03636.x     Document Type: Letter

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