Integrating general practitioners into crisis management would accelerate the transition from victim to effective professional: Qualitative analyses of a terrorist attack and catastrophic flooding

Bernard Clary (1) , Bélinda Baert (2) , Gérard Bourrel (2, 1) , Michel Amouyal (2, 1) , Béatrice Lognos (3, 4) , Agnès Oude-Engberink (2, 1) , Elodie Million (2, 1)

1 IDESP - Institut Desbrest de santé publique
2 CHRU Montpellier - Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier]
3 Plateforme CEPS - Centre d’Evaluation des programmes de Prévention Sante [Montpellier]
4 EPSYLON - Dynamique des capacités humaines et des conduites de santé

In 2018, Trèbes, 6,000 inhabitants with nine general practitioners (GPs) in southern France, experienced two tragedies; a terrorist attack in March, in which four people were killed, and a catastrophic flood in October, in which six people died and thousands more were affected.

Keywords: PTSD; Qualitative designs and methods; disasters; flooding; general; general practice/family medicine; general practitioner; terrorist attacks; PTSD

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Humanities and Social Sciences

Bernard Clary, Bélinda Baert, Gérard Bourrel, Michel Amouyal, Béatrice Lognos, et al.. Integrating general practitioners into crisis management would accelerate the transition from victim to effective professional: Qualitative analyses of a terrorist attack and catastrophic flooding. European Journal of General Practice, 2022, 28 (1), pp.125-133. ⟨10.1080/13814788.2022.2072826⟩. ⟨hal-03683911⟩