Sign Me Up: Rules of the Road for Humanitarian Volunteers during the Ebola Outbreak

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 88-89

  Wildes, Ryan ^a   Kayden, Stephanie ^b   Goralnick, Eric ^b   Niescierenko, Michelle ^c   Aschkenasy, Miriam ^d   Kemen, Katherine M ^a   Vanrooyen, Michael ^e   Biddinger, Paul ^d   Cranmer, Hilarie ^d  

^a PARTNERS HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

disaster medicine; disease outbreaks; emergency responders; voluntary workers

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; DEVICES; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; VOLUNTEER;

ALTRUISM; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; VOLUNTEERS;

EID: 84922300982     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2014.110     Document Type: Article

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