Do pandemic preparedness planning systems ignore critical community and local-level operational challenges?

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-29

  Burkle Jr , Frederick M ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; EPIDEMIC; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT;

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HUMANS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT;

EID: 77951636430     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/DMP.0b013e3181cb4193     Document Type: Note

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