Standards in collaborative international disaster drills: A case study of two international search and rescue drills

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 60-62

  Rokach, Ariel ^a   Pinkert, Moshe ^a   Nemet, Dani ^a   Goldberg, Avishay ^b   Bar Dayan, Yaron ^a,b  

^a Israeli Defense Forces Home Front Command Medical Department   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

collaboration; disaster drills; international collaboration; search and rescue

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; GREECE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISRAEL; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARD; TEACHING; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

DISASTER PLANNING; GREECE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ISRAEL; NATURAL DISASTERS; PATIENT SIMULATION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RELIEF WORK; RESCUE WORK; TURKEY;

EID: 46349101984     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00005586     Document Type: Article

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