Medical response to the 2009 Sumatra earthquake: Health needs in the post-disaster period

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 99-103

  Tan, C M ^a   Lee, V J ^a   Chang, G H ^a   Ang, H X ^a   Seet, B ^a  

^a Singapore Army   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Disaster; Earthquake; Health needs; Indonesia; Military

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARMY; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTUSION; DISASTER; DIZZINESS; EAR DISEASE; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY WARD; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; LACERATION; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSISTANT; MEDICAL CARE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RELIEF WORK; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN DISEASE; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDONESIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; RELIEF WORK; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857151602     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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