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health and medical response scenarios  

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  • Health and medical care staff and systems play key roles in the response and recovery from crisis events (such as mass transportation accidents and acts of terrorism). Disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and the 2011 Japanese tsunami illustrated how hospitals could be destroyed or rendered unusable. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crisis Management; Health and Medical Response Scenarios]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-NDN29X7S-V

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