The Impact of Typhoon Haiyan on Health Staff: A Qualitative Study in Two Hospitals in Eastern Visayas, The Philippines

Frontiers in Public Health

Julita Gil Cuesta¹ 

关键词: disasters;    health personnel;    qualitative research;    typhoon;    floods;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2018.00208

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background and objective: Understanding how natural disasters affect their victims is key to improve prevention and mitigation. Typhoon Haiyan strongly hit the Philippines in 2013. In Leyte, health staff of two hospitals had a key role as responders, but also as victims. Scarce literature is available on how health staff may be affected when being disasters' victims. We therefore aimed to understand Haiyan's impact for health staff at personal and work level.

【 授权许可】

CC BY