State-level emergency preparedness and response capabilities

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Watkins, Sharon M ^a   Perrotta, Dennis M ^b   Stanbury, Martha ^c   Heumann, Michael ^d   Anderson, Henry ^e   Simms, Erin ^f   Huang, Monica ^f  

^a FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY HEALTH   (United States)

^d OREGON PUBLIC HEALTH DIVISION   (United States)

^e Division of Public Health   (United States)

^f Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; Emergency preparedness; Radiation; Radiation preparedness planning; State level capabilities

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CIVIL DEFENSE; DISASTER PLANNING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

CIVIL DEFENSE; DATA COLLECTION; DISASTER PLANNING; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; STATE GOVERNMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953016243     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/dmp.2011.26     Document Type: Article

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