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2 - Epidemiology of Disaster Mental Health

The Foundation for Disaster Mental Health Response

from Part II - Foundations of Disaster Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2017

By
Carol S. North
Edited by
Robert J. Ursano ,
Carol S. Fullerton ,
Lars Weisaeth  and
Beverley Raphael
Robert J. Ursano
Affiliation:
Uniformed Services University
Carol S. Fullerton
Affiliation:
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Maryland
Lars Weisaeth
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
Beverley Raphael
Affiliation:
Australian National University, Canberra
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Textbook of Disaster Psychiatry , pp. 27 - 43
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