The need for evidence-based public health response in disasters

Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 238-244

  Mahapatra, Prasanta ^a  

^a Institute of Health Systems   (India)

Author keywords

Disaster Healthcare; Disaster Medicine; Disaster Research Methods; Emergency Public Health Response; Evidence based Disaster Healthcare; Evidence based Disaster Medicine; Evidence based EMS

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); EVIDENCE BASED EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH;

DISASTER PLANNING; EVIDENCE-BASED EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

EID: 84913614659     PISSN: 17565383     EISSN: 17565391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jebm.12129     Document Type: Article

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