Mental health and psychosocial support after the Great East Japan Earthquake

Keio Journal of Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-22

  Kato, Yutaka ^a   Uchida, Hiroyuki ^a   Mimura, Masaru ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disaster medicine; Earthquakes; Mental health; Psychiatry; Tsunamis

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MEDICINE; EARTHQUAKE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; REVIEW; TSUNAMI;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; RELIEF WORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84860143673     PISSN: 00229717     EISSN: 18801293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2302/kjm.61.15     Document Type: Review

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