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Enhancing public health emergency preparedness for special needs populations : a toolkit for state and local planning and response / Jeanne S. Ringel [and four others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ringel, Jeanne S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emergency management--United States.
- Emergency management.
- Health planning--United States.
- Health planning.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (116 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2009
- Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Experiences from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita showed that current emergency preparedness plans are inadequate to address the unique issues of special needs populations. This toolkit distills the most relevant emergency preparedness strategies, practices, and resources for these populations. It includes a Web-based Geographic Information Systems tool to identify and enumerate those with special needs in communities across the United States.
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (JSTOR, viewed June 12, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 0-8330-6003-1
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