Special focus emergency legal preparedness among select US local governments

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 3, Issue SUPPL.2, 2009, Pages

  Anderson, Evan D ^a   Hodge Jr , James G ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; Emergency; Legal preparedness; Local law; Public health; Volunteers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL LIABILITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

DISASTER PLANNING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LIABILITY, LEGAL; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY WORKERS;

EID: 77649302439     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 193844X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DMP.0b013e3181be6e92     Document Type: Article

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