Health Care

Emergency Shelter

Temporary shelter provided in response to a major disaster or emergency.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Temporary shelter provided in response to a major disaster or emergency.

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Synonyms

5 entry terms
  • Evacuation Shelter
  • Emergency Shelters
  • Evacuation Shelters
  • Shelters, Emergency
  • Shelters, Evacuation

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

2012

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Tree Number

  1. N06.230w.100w.121w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Emergency Shelter. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D060447. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D060447
  2. Emergency Shelter. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_shelter
  3. Emergency Shelter. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1722438