Triple threat trauma: Evidence-based mental health response for the 2011 Japan disaster

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 141-145

  Shultz, James M ^a   Kelly, Fiona ^b   Forbes, David ^c   Verdeli, Helen ^d   Leon, Gloria R ^e   Rosen, Alexa ^a   Neria, Yuval ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f Trauma and PTSD Program Columbia University Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER; EARLY INTERVENTION; EARTHQUAKE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR; TSUNAMI;

DISASTERS; EARLY MEDICAL INTERVENTION; EARTHQUAKES; HUMANS; JAPAN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84855534233     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X11006364     Document Type: Review

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