Disciplines and Occupations

Disaster Medicine

Branch of medicine involved with management and organization of public health response to disasters and major events including the special health and medical needs of a community in a disaster.

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Structured Summary

Abstract

Branch of medicine involved with management and organization of public health response to disasters and major events including the special health and medical needs of a community in a disaster.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Medicine, Disaster

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specialty; differentiate from DISASTERS

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History Note

2008

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  1. H02w.403w.230w

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NLM Classification

WA 295

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Disaster Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D054597. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D054597
  2. Disaster Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster_medicine
  3. Disaster Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2274060