Disaster and emergency medicine - a conceptual introduction.

Front Public Health

Disaster Medicine Department, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University , Tel-Aviv, Israel ; National Center for Trauma and Emergency Medicine Research, The Gertner Institute for Health Policy and Epidemiology, Tel Hashomer, Israel.

Published: December 2013

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