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Glossary of New Concepts in Disaster Medicine: A Supplement to Gunn's Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Michel Debacker ,
Bernd Domres  and
Jan de Boer
Michel Debacker
Affiliation:
University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Bernd Domres
Affiliation:
University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Jan de Boer
Affiliation:
Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

The development of Disaster Medicine as a science is dependent on clear definitions of its language. This article proposes a set of definitions to supplement those currently accepted.

Keywords

definitionsdictionarydisaster medicineglossarylanguagenew concepts
Type
Theoretical Discussion
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 1999 , pp. 39 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1999

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