Natural Disasters and Infectious Diseases: Mitigating Risks to Vulnerable Populations.

Sustaining health amidst the chaos following environmental catastrophes is a fundamental challenge in disaster medicine. Although historically rare in the immediate post-disaster aftermath, communicable disease outbreaks have recently occurred among displaced disaster survivors. Disaster responders...

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Published in:	Journal of Race & Policy (Old Dominion University) Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 75 - 93
Main Author:	Bartelt, Luther A.
Format:	Article
Published:	Old Dominion University, Consortium for Research on Race, Diversity & Policy Spring/Summer2011
Subjects:	Natural disasters Communicable diseases Poverty Epidemics Mycobacterial diseases Refugee camps
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost