URI: <http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85038299#concept>

Type: Topical Term

Alternate Labels: Disaster assistance; Emergency assistance in disasters; Emergency relief

Broader Terms:

• Emergency management
• Human services

Narrower Terms:

• Disaster medicine
• Drought relief
• Earthquake relief
• Emergency clothing supply
• Emergency communication systems
• Emergency food supply
• Emergency housing
• Emergency public utility services
• Emergency sanitation
• Emergency transportation
• Emergency water supply
• Evacuation of civilians
• Food relief
• Public shelters
• Red Cross and Red Crescent
• Rest centers (Disaster relief)
• War relief

Sources:

• Disaster assistance programs, 2002.
• Oxfam America Web site, Aug. 18, 2006 (emergency assistance in disasters)

LC Classification: HV553

Created: 2006-07-21

Last Modified: 2006-09-06 12:56:01



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