Supporting health in the Hyogo Framework for Action-2.

My planned editorial for this issue was to continue recounting the progress the Society of Disaster Medicine and Public Health has made toward achieving our original 2010 goals. Although this discussion is critically important in helping to define a discipline of disaster medicine and public health that is both professional and crossdisciplinary, that follow-up editorial is being deferred to the August issue for 2 reasons. The first is that 2 important meetings will be held in the near future that will better inform the discussion. The second reason is that the society has been asked to take an active role in supporting a growing initiative to better define health as a necessary element of the Hyogo Framework for Action-2 (HFA-2), as eloquently described by Burkle et al in an accompanying editorial.