Community Health Workers and Disasters: Lessons Learned from the 2015 Earthquake in Nepal

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 604-609

  Fredricks, Karla ^a,b   Dinh, Hao ^a   Kusi, Manita ^c   Yogal, Chandra ^c   Karmacharya, Biraj M ^c,d   Burke, Thomas F ^a,b,e   Nelson, Brett D ^a,b,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Dhulikhel Hospital   (Nepal)

^d KATHMANDU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Nepal)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

community health networks; disaster planning; earthquake; emergencies; Nepal

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER PLANNING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EARTHQUAKE; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NEPAL; ORGANIZATION; RESIDENT; RISK REDUCTION; SCIENTIST; SOFTWARE;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; DISASTER PLANNING; EARTHQUAKES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; NEPAL;

EID: 85027055404     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X1700680X     Document Type: Article

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