Monitoring and evaluation of disaster response efforts undertaken by local health departments: a rapid realist review

• Main Authors: Kate Gossip (Author), Hebe Gouda (Author), Yong Yi Lee (Author), Sonja Firth (Author), Raoul Bermejo (Author), Willibald Zeck (Author), Eliana Jimenez Soto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Local health departments are often at the forefront of a disaster response, attending to the immediate trauma inflicted by the disaster and also the long term health consequences. As the frequency and severity of disasters are projected to rise, monitoring and evaluation (M&E...