Self-assessment in the measurement of public health workforce preparedness for bioterrorism or other public health disasters

Public Health Reports

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 186-191

  Kerby, Dave S ^a   Brand, Michael W ^a   Johnson, David L ^a   Ghouri, Farooq S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; COMPETENCE; DISASTER; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF EVALUATION; TRAINING;

EID: 16844363730     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335490512000213     Document Type: Article

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