Glossary of New Concepts in Disaster Medicine: A Supplement to Gunn's Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine

1 March 1999

journal article
editorial
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Vol. 14 (3) , 39-42
https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x00027485

Abstract

The development of Disaster Medicine as a science is dependent on clear definitions of its language. This article proposes a set of definitions to supplement those currently accepted.

Keywords

This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:

Criteria for the Assessment of Disaster Preparedness-II
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 1997
An Attempt at More Accurate Estimation of the Number of Ambulances Needed at Disasters in The Netherlands
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 1996
Public health measures following a nuclear accident in The Netherlands
The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1994
The medical severity index of disasters
The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1989
An analysis of civil aircrash statistics 1977–1986 for the purposes of planning disaster exercises
Injury, 1988
Terrorist Bombings
Annals of Surgery, 1988
Human System Responses to Disaster
Published by Springer Nature ,1986
An alarm procedure
The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1985
The definition and classification of disasters
Injury, 1983
The Terrorist Bomb Explosion in Bologna, Italy, 1980
Published by Wolters Kluwer Health ,1982