Health Services Organization in the Event of Disaster (PAHO-OPS, 1983, 118 p.): (introduction...)

Health Services Organization in the Event of Disaster (PAHO-OPS, 1983, 118 p.)

		*(introduction...)*
		Health for all by the year 2000
		Preface
		Acknowledgments
		Chapter 1: Introduction
		Chapter 2: Organization of the health system
		Chapter 3: Organization of medical care units in the disaster area
		Chapter 4: Organization of rural health services in disaster situations
		Chapter 5: Organization of medical care centers for disaster situations
		Chapter 6: Implementing the plan in hospitals
		Chapter 7: Updating and evaluating the hospital disaster management plan
		Annexes
		Bibliography

(introduction...)

Scientific Publication No. 443
PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
525 Twenty-third Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037, U.S.A.
1983

Published also in Spanish (1983) as:
Organización de los servicios de salud para situaciones de desastre

1989 - Reprint (4000)

The publication of this manual. in English and Spanish, has been made possible by financial support of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the European Economic Community (EEC), the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA), and the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID/OFDA).

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