Challenges in disaster data collection during recent disasters

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 196-201

  Morton, Melinda ^a,b   Levy, J Lee ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

data; disaster; earthquake; Haiti; Hurricane Katrina; tsunami

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; MICROCOMPUTER; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; RELIEF WORK; RESCUE PERSONNEL; STANDARD; TIME; TSUNAMI;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CYCLONIC STORMS; DATA COLLECTION; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; MICROCOMPUTERS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POLITICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RELIEF WORK; TIME FACTORS; TSUNAMIS;

EID: 84855551588     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X11006339     Document Type: Article

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