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Table 1 Search terms

From: Rapid Health and Needs assessments after disasters: a systematic review

A. Disaster-related

disaster, crisis*, (mass) emergency*, life event*, traumatic event*, environmental exposure, calamity*, mass accident

B. Methods

assessment*, method*, protocol*, concept*, system*, procedure*, design, survey, record

C1. Health related

-(immediate/pre-existing) health problems, health status, health conditions

-stress, distress, concerns, worries, anxieties, psychotrauma

-somatic symptoms/complaints, physical symptoms/complaints, diseases, illness, casualties and fatalities/injured and wounded, dead, death rates, morbidity

C2. Needs

-(immediate) health needs, care needs, medical needs, medical services, medicine needs, aftercare needs, psychosocial needs

-practical needs, logistic needs, communication needs, accommodation needs, food needs, financial needs, information needs

  1. * An asterisk was placed at the end of some words to search for all terms that begin with that word