Disaster medicine in the 21st century: Future hazards, vulnerabilities, and risk

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 3-11

  Arnold, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

21st Century; 9 11; aging population; Amazon; anthrax; anthrax letter attack; armed conflict; Bhopal; biological warfare agent; chemical disaster; chemical warfare agent; Chenobyl; civil war; complex emergency; cyclone; deforestation; Disaster; disaster medicine; disaster prone; drought; earthquake; economic; El Nino; environmental degradation; flood; future; global warming; globalization; hazard; hazardous material; hazardous waste; industrial chemical; infectious disease; influenza; informal settlements; interconnectedness; Iraq; landslide; Love Canal; maldistribution; marginalization; Minamata; natural disaster; nuclear disaster; nuclear material; nuclear release; nuclear terrorism; nuclear waste; nuclear weapon; pandemic; plague; population density; population growth; poverty; proliferation; risk; risk assessment; sarin; smallpox; structural vulnerability; terrorism; Tokyo subway; tribalism; urbanization; volcano; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

DISASTER PLANNING; DISASTERS; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0036371423     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00000042     Document Type: Article

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