Humanitarian Relief Workers and Trauma-related Mental Illness
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Humanitarian relief workers and trauma-related mental illness.
Humanitarian relief work is a growing field characterized by ongoing exposure to primary and secondary trauma, which has implications for workers' occupational mental health. This paper reviews and summarizes research to date on mental health effects of relief work. Twelve studies on relief workers and 5 studies on organizations that employ relief workers are examined to determine whether relie...
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عنوان ژورنال: Epidemiologic Reviews
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0193-936X,1478-6729
DOI: 10.1093/epirev/mxr026