Collaboration in response to disaster - Typhoon Yolanda and an integrative model

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1183-1184

  Merin, Ofer ^a,b   Kreiss, Yitshak ^a,c   Lin, Guy ^a,d   Pras, Elon ^a,e   Dagan, David ^a  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTER VICTIM; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HURRICANE; NATURAL DISASTER; PATIENT CARE; PHILIPPINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIEF WORK; RESPONSIBILITY; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CYCLONIC STORMS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DISASTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHILIPPINES; RELIEF WORK;

EID: 84896948843     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1315960     Document Type: Article

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