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Descriptor English: Emergency Feeding
Descriptor Spanish: Alimentación de Emergencia
Descriptor alimentación de emergencia
Entry term(s) alimentación básica
Scope note: Distribución de ALIMENTOS a familias, individuos y comunidades que han perdido sus medios normales de abastecimiento, o que son incapaces de preparar sus propios ALIMENTOS a causa de un desastre natural o provocado por el hombre, como EPIDEMIAS de HAMBRE, INUNDACIONES, TERREMOTOS o guerras. (Traducción libre del original: Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)
Descriptor Portuguese: Alimentação de Emergência
Descriptor French: Alimentation d'Urgence
Entry term(s): Conventional Food
Nutritional Emergencies
Staple Food
Tree number(s): SP6.810.809.397.175
SP8.570.747.231.664.265
Scope note: Distribution of food to communities, families and individuals who are cut off from their normal food supplies or are unable to prepare their own food as a result of natural or man-made disaster such as famine, flood, earthquake, war. (Material V - Gunn,S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
Related: Food Relief DeCS
Food Supply MeSH
Man-Made Disasters DeCS
Natural Disasters MeSH
Starvation MeSH
DeCS ID: 16555
Unique ID: DDCS016555
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Emergency Feeding - Preferred
Concept UI FD00057814
Scope note Distribution of food to communities, families and individuals who are cut off from their normal food supplies or are unable to prepare their own food as a result of natural or man-made disaster such as famine, flood, earthquake, war. (Material V - Gunn,S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990)
Preferred term Emergency Feeding
Entry term(s) Nutritional Emergencies
Staple Food - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI FD00060648
Scope note A food that is regularly consumed in a country or community and from which a substantial proportion of the total calorie supply is obtained (Material II - IDNDR, 1992)
Preferred term Staple Food
Entry term(s) Conventional Food



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