Healthy People 2020: Preparedness
http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/overview.aspx?topicid=34
“Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for promoting health and preventing disease. One of the new topic areas of the recently-announced Healthy People 2020 is preparedness, with a goal of improving the Nation’s ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a major health incident. These objectives are based on a set of national priorities articulated in the National Health Security Strategy of the United States of America.
Search for Disaster Organizations Widget
http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/widgetdimrc.html
The National Library of Medicine has tagged a subset of over 1000 disaster-related records in the DIRLINE direct.”
[posted on the BHIC Blog]
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