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Lessons from the Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps' Experience in the Organization of International Medical Disaster Relief Forces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Joshua Shemer ,
Ori Heller  and
Jakov Adler
Joshua Shemer*
Affiliation:
Heller Institute for Medical Research, Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University School of Medicine, Tel Hashomer, Israel Medical Corps Headquarters, Israel Defense Forces, Israel
Ori Heller
Affiliation:
Medical Corps Headquarters, Israel Defense Forces, Israel
Jakov Adler
Affiliation:
Director-General, Magen David Adorn in Israel, Tel-Aviv, Israel
*
Heller Institute for Medical Research, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, Tel Hashomer 52621, Israel
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Natural and man-made disasters continue to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Natural disasters include earthquakes, storms such as hurricanes, floods, fires, drought. Man-made disasters include fires, explosions, chemical and radioactive releases, major transportation accidents, terrorism, and war. The effects of disaster include injury, death, damage to infrastructure, environmental exposure, population movement, and increased incidence of communicable diseases.

Type
Special Report
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 282 - 284
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1992

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