A semi-quantitative risk assessment model of primary health care service interruption during flood: Case study of Aroma locality, Kassala State of Sudan

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Volumn 6, Issue , 2013, Pages 118-128

  Abbas, Haitham Bashier ^a   Routray, Jayant K ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Flood; Primary health care; Risk assessment; Service interruption; Sudan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888784269     PISSN: 22124209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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