How sex- and age-disaggregated data and gender and generational analyses can improve humanitarian response

Disasters

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Mazurana, Dyan ^a   Benelli, Prisca ^a   Walker, Peter ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Agriculture food security; And hygiene; Armed conflict; Education; Emergency shelter; Gender; Gender and generational analyses; Health; Humanitarian assessment; Humanitarian response; Methods; Natural disaster; Protection; Sanitation; Sex and age disaggregated data; Water

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AGE; AGRICULTURE; EDUCATION; FOOD SECURITY; GENDER RELATIONS; HEALTH CARE; HUMANITARIAN AID; HYGIENE; NATURAL DISASTER; SANITATION; VULNERABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGRICULTURE/FOOD SECURITY; ALTRUISM; AND HYGIENE; ARMED CONFLICT; ARTICLE; CHILD; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY SHELTER; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENDER; GENDER AND GENERATIONAL ANALYSES; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUMANITARIAN ASSESSMENT; HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PROTECTION; RELIEF WORK; SANITATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX- AND AGE-DISAGGREGATED DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

AGE; AGRICULTURE/FOOD SECURITY; AND HYGIENE; ARMED CONFLICT; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY SHELTER; GENDER; GENDER AND GENERATIONAL ANALYSES; HEALTH; HUMANITARIAN ASSESSMENT; HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE; METHODS; NATURAL DISASTER; PROTECTION; SANITATION; SEX- AND AGE-DISAGGREGATED DATA; WATER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTRUISM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; RELIEF WORK; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879024148     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/disa.12013     Document Type: Article

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