Against all odds: A preliminary study comparing hospital personnel and rescue personnel reactions to Haiti's earthquake

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages e1-

  Ben Ezra, Menachem ^a   Palgi, Yuval ^b   Hamama Raz, Yaira ^a   Soffer, Yechiel ^c   Shrira, Amit ^d,e  

^a ARIEL UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HAITI; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER;

EID: 84872385454     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2012.06.013     Document Type: Letter

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