Mapping Medical Disasters: Ebola Makes Old Lessons, New

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 66-73

  Koch, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

disaster medicine; disaster planning; disease outbreaks; medical cartography; spatial epidemiology

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 84924592365     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2015.14     Document Type: Article

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