Public health response actions and the use of emergency operations centers

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 217-218

  Mignone, A Thomas ^a   Davidson, Robert ^a  

^a US Public Health Service Region I   (United States)

Author keywords

11 September 2001; catastrophic events; disaster; emergency operations center (EOC); incident command system; lessons learned; mass casualties; planning; recovery; response; terrorism; unified command system; weapons of mass destruction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED STATES;

DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCIES; NEW YORK CITY; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE;

EID: 3042783276     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00001084     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, as Amended, 42 U.S.C. 5121, et seq., 1999a.
2. Pan American Health Organization: Disasters-Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas (Issue No. 89). Washington, DC: Pan-American Health Organization, 2002.
3. Institute of Medicine, Manning, Goldfrank, (eds): Tools for Evaluating the Metropolitan Medical Response Program. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2002. p 35.
4. Institute of Medicine: The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2002. p 26.