The Association Between Disaster Vulnerability and Post-disaster Psychosocial Service Delivery Across Europe

Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 470-479

  Dückers, Michel L A ^a   Witteveen, Anke B ^b   Bisson, Jonathan I ^c   Olff, Miranda ^b,d  

^a Partner in Arq Psychotrauma Expert Group   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d ARQ PSYCHOTRAUMA EXPERT GROUP   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disaster; Europe; Mapping; Psychosocial support; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EUROPE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL WORK;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; EUROPE; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 84937706000     PISSN: 0894587X     EISSN: 15733289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10488-015-0671-8     Document Type: Article

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