Rural and suburban population surge following detonation of an improvised nuclear device: A new model to estimate impact

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Meit, Michael ^a   Redlener, Irwin ^b   Briggs, Thomas W ^a   Kwanisai, Mike ^a   Culp, Derrin ^b   Abramson, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Evacuation model; Improvised nuclear device; Push pull model; Rural preparedness

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CROWDING; FORECASTING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNICATION; FORECASTING; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MASS BEHAVIOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW YORK CITY; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; RURAL POPULATION; SUBURBAN POPULATION; TRAVEL;

EID: 79953018259     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/dmp.2011.20     Document Type: Article

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