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The American Red Cross Training System for Preparing Disaster Health Services Personnel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Carole K. Kauffman
Affiliation:
Disaster Health Services, American Red Cross, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Extract

Disaster relief and the spirit of volunteerism have been inextricably interwoven with the design and development of Red Cross societies around the world. The American Red Cross is one of 131 members of an international federation of national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, the League of Red Cross Societies. Societies are chartered by their own governments and conduct programs in the fields of health, welfare, and safety in accordance with each nation's needs.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1987

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