Toward the way forward: The national children's disaster mental health concept of operations

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 174-181

  Schreiber, Merritt ^a   Pfefferbaum, Betty ^b   Sayegh, Lisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c North American Aerospace Defense Command US Northern Command   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Disaster; Evidence base; National incident management system; Psystart triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEDIATRICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; PEDIATRICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865638198     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/dmp.2012.22     Document Type: Article

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