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The Presence of International Relief Teams in the 2023 Turkish Earthquake: Challenges, Strengths, and Lessons Learned

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2023

Pirhossein Kolivand*
Affiliation:
Department of Health Economics, School of Medicine, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
Hamid Karimi Kivi
Affiliation:
Research Center for Emergency and Disaster Resilience, Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Seyed Fattolah Hasheminezhad
Affiliation:
Research Center for Health Management in Mass Gathering, Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Peyman Saberian
Affiliation:
Department of Anesthesiology, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Navab Shamspour
Affiliation:
Research Center for Emergency and Disaster Resilience, Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Iran
*
Correspondence: Pirhossein Kolivand Department of Health Economics School of Medicine Shahed University, Tehran, Iran E-mail: Kolivand@neuroscience.ir

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

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