Prepared to react? Assessing the functional capacity of the primary health care system in rural Orissa, India to respond to the devastating flood of september 2008

Global Health Action

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Phalkey, Revati ^a   Dash, Shisir R ^b   Mukhopadhyay, Alok ^b   Runge Ranzinger, Silvia ^a   Marx, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Voluntary Health Association of India   (India)

Author keywords

Climate change; Disaster management; Extreme weather; Food; Health facility; Humanitarian crisis; India; Natural disasters; Orissa; Preparedness; Primary health care; Public; Response

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; FLOODING; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION;

DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; FLOODS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84863566219     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v5i0.10964     Document Type: Article

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