Prepared to react? Assessing the functional capacity of the primary health care system in rural Orissa, India to respond to the devastating flood of September 2008

• Principais autores: Michael Marx (Autor), Silvia Runge-Ranzinger (Autor), Alok Mukhopadhyay (Autor), Shisir R. Dash (Autor), Revati Phalkey (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Taylor & Francis Group, 2012-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Early detection of an impending flood and the availability of countermeasures to deal with it can significantly reduce its health impacts. In developing countries like India, public primary health care facilities are frontline organizations that deal with disasters particularly in rural...