Equity and Disasters: Reframing Incident Command Systems.
The authors discuss ways in which hospitals can incorporate principles of health equity for traditionally underserved groups such as minorities and expertise as part of their Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) apparatus in order to address disaster responses to events such as the COVID-19 pande...
| Published in: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 111; no. 5; pp. 844 - 849 |
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American Public Health Association
May2021
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