Crisis communication: An inequalities perspective on the 2010 Boston water crisis

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 349-356

  Galarce, Ezequiel M ^a   Viswanath, K ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral compliance; Communication inequalities; Crisis communication; Social determinants

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FLOODING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BOSTON; COMMUNICATION; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FLOODS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872009782     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/dmp.2012.62     Document Type: Article

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