Citizen preparedness for disasters: Are current assumptions valid?

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 170-173

  Uscher Pines, Lori ^a,b   Chandra, Anita ^a   Acosta, Joie ^a   Kellermann, Arthur ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Community resilience; Personal preparedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865642308     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/dmp.2012.23     Document Type: Article

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