Environmental health and Hurricane Katrina

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Falk, Henry ^a   Baldwin, Grant ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REFUGEE; UNITED STATES; WATER SUPPLY;

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NATURAL DISASTERS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES;

EID: 30344474944     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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