Disaster preparedness of linguistically isolated populations: Practical issues for planners

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 265-271

  Nepal, Vishnu ^a   Banerjee, Deborah ^a   Perry, Mark ^b   Scott, Deborah ^c  

^a Independent researcher ^*  (United States)

^b Independent researcher   (United States)

^c Sage Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

disaster preparedness; immigrants; linguistically isolated; public health emergency planning; risk communication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DISASTER PLANNING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DISASTER PLANNING; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862701881     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: 15526372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839910384932     Document Type: Article

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