Emergency Preparedness Training for Public Health Nurses: a Pilot Study
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Conceptualizing and defining public health emergency preparedness.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1099-3460,1471-8505
DOI: 10.1093/jurban/79.3.413