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Disaster medicine and public health preparedness

Journal Volume: 10
Journal Issue: 4
Journal Year: 2016
Articles in SafetyLit: 14

Challenges during a chlorine gas emergency response

Defining, describing, and categorizing public health infrastructure priorities for tropical cyclone, flood, storm, tornado, and tsunami-related disasters

Disaster medicine: a multi-modality curriculum designed and implemented for emergency medicine residents

Disaster radio for communication of vital messages and health-related information: experiences from the Haiyan Typhoon, the Philippines

Epidemiologic investigation of injuries associated with the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas

Evaluation of disaster preparedness based on simulation exercises: a comparison of two models

Knowledge, perception, and capacity regarding emergency risk communication: a cross-sectional survey of 429 county health emergency response staff in Chongqing, China

National and regional representativeness of hospital emergency department visit data in the National Syndromic Surveillance Program, United States, 2014

National differences in regional emergency department boarding times: are US emergency departments prepared for a public health emergency?

Qualitative assessment of a novel efficacy-focused training intervention for public health workers in disaster recovery

The World Health Organization Global Health Emergency Workforce: what role will the United States Play?

Toolkit for epidemiologic response to an acute chemical release

Using timely survey-based information networks to collect data on best practices for public health emergency preparedness and response: illustrative case from the American College of Emergency Physicians' Ebola Surveys

Validation study of the World Health Organization and Pan American Health Organization Hospital-Based Disaster Preparedness Questionnaires in Nepal