Disaster Preparedness and Social Capital

The first decade of the 21st century has pushed the field of disaster preparedness to the forefront of public health. In a few short years, the world has witnessed the far–ranging ramifications of 9/11 and anthrax (2001), SARS (2003), the Indian Ocean tsunami (2004), Hurricane Katrina (2005) and the...

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Autores principales: Koh, Howard K., Cadigan, Rebecca O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7121889/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71311-3_13
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spelling pubmed-71218892020-04-06 Disaster Preparedness and Social Capital Koh, Howard K. Cadigan, Rebecca O. Social Capital and Health Article The first decade of the 21st century has pushed the field of disaster preparedness to the forefront of public health. In a few short years, the world has witnessed the far–ranging ramifications of 9/11 and anthrax (2001), SARS (2003), the Indian Ocean tsunami (2004), Hurricane Katrina (2005) and the looming threat of pandemic influenza. Societies everywhere are responding to these developments with new policies that commit added resources for protection against future disasters. 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC7121889/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71311-3_13 Text en © Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2008 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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