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The Mexico City Earthquake—An International Disaster. An Overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Roberto Castañon Romo
Roberto Castañon Romo
Affiliation:
Medical Care Services, Mexico City, Mexico
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Extract

I will present a general view of the events that took place in Mexico City on September 19th, 1985.

I will make reference, in the first place, to certain facts related with the subject, then I will describe the general damage to health and to the health services, and finally I will give information about the action taken in the area of epidemiological surveillance.

The information in this work was generated through a committee formed by different health institutions and in which I participated. This organization was responsible for the health services and the epidemiological surveillance during the events of September 1985.

Type
Papers from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services: Focus on Disasters, Baltimore, Maryland, April, 1986
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 1-4: Contributions from the Second International Assembly on Emergency Medical Services-Focus on Disaster, Baltimore, Md., USA, 1986 and 4th World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine Brighton, U.K. June, 1985 , 1986 , pp. 4 - 8
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1986

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