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International Collaboration in Disaster Medicine—It is Time for the “Big Step” in Disaster Preparedness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Yaron Bar-Dayan
Yaron Bar-Dayan*
Affiliation:
Chief Medical Officer (ret), IDF Home Front Command, and the Department of Disaster and Emergency Medicine, the Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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E-mail: bardayan@netvision.net.il
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Extract

In the last few decades, we have witnessed global disasters that rendered national medical systems helpless. A few examples are the tsunami in southeast Asia, and earthquakes in Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, and India.

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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2008 , pp. 380 - 381
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2008

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