Measuring healthcare preparedness: an all-hazards approach
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Measuring healthcare preparedness: an all-hazards approach
In a paper appearing in this issue, Adini, et al. describe a struggle familiar to many emergency planners-the challenge of planning for all scenarios. The authors contend that all-hazards, or capabilities-based planning, in which a set of core capabilities applicable to numerous types of events is developed, is a more efficient way to achieve general health care system emergency preparedness th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2045-4015
DOI: 10.1186/2045-4015-1-42