Regulating the helping hand: Improving legal preparedness for cross-border disaster medicine

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 208-212

  Fisher, David ^a  

^a International Disaster Response Laws Rules and Principles Programme International Federation of Red Cross   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

disaster relief; international; International Disaster Response Laws Rules and Principles Programme; International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; legal preparedness; liability; nongovernmental organizations; regulation

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ARTICLE; DISASTER MEDICINE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RED CROSS; RELIEF WORK;

ALTRUISM; DISASTER MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; RED CROSS; RELIEF WORK; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77957001865     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00008037     Document Type: Article

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