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Mexico City
26 - 28 February 1996

This publication is also available in Spanish.

PAHO Identification No.: PAHO/PED/66.48

For further information about this or other publications on disaster issues, please contact the Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief Coordination Program, Pan American Health Organization, 525 Twenty-third Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 2037, USA; Fax: (202) 775-4578; email: disaster@paho.org.

The printing of this document was made possible thanks to the financial support of the International Humanitarian Assistance Division of the Canadian International Development Agency (IHA/CIDA), the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance of the United States Agency for International Development (OFDA/USAID) and the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) of the United Kingdom.

Conference Sponsors

Ministry of Health of Mexico
Ministry of Interior of Mexico
Mexican Institute of Social Security
Pan American Health Organization
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Secretariat of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction of the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs
World Bank Organization of American States