Satisfaction with the humanitarian response to the 2010 Pakistan floods: A call for increased accountability to beneficiaries

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 565-571

  Kirsch, Thomas ^a   Siddiqui, Muhammad Ahmed ^b   Perrin, Paul Clayton ^c   Robinson, W Courtland ^c   Sauer, Lauren M ^a   Doocy, Shannon ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Telehealth   (Pakistan)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FLOODING; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYGIENE; PAKISTAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RURAL AREA; SATISFACTION; URBAN AREA;

DISASTER; DISASTER RESPONSE; DISPLACEMENT; ECONOMIC RECOVERY; FLOOD; IMPACT; MANAGEMENT; MENTAL HEALTH; PAKISTAN; PRE-HOSPITAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISASTER PLANNING; FLOODS; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; RELIEF WORK; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SURVIVORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879418907     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201226     Document Type: Article

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