Developing international standards for disaster preparedness and response: How do we get there?

World Medical and Health Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  McCann, David G C ^a   Cordi, Heidi P ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell   (United States)

Author keywords

disaster preparedness; disaster response; medical standards of care

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; DISASTER PLANNING; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EUROPEAN UNION; GLOBAL EARTH OBSERVATION SYSTEM OF SYSTEMS; GOVERNMENT; GROUP ON EARTH OBSERVATIONS; HAITI; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIEF WORK; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 79959564366     PISSN: 19484682     EISSN: 21532028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1948-4682.1154     Document Type: Article

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