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The Canadian Armed Forces medical response to Typhoon Haiyan
Author(s) -
Erin Savage,
Christian Sandrock,
Stephanie Smith,
Dylan Pannell
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
canadian journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.609
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1488-2310
pISSN - 0008-428X
DOI - 10.1503/cjs.013514
Subject(s) - medicine , medical emergency , typhoon , disaster response , disaster medicine , government (linguistics) , data collection , first aid , suicide prevention , poison control , emergency management , oceanography , statistics , mathematics , law , geology , linguistics , philosophy , political science
In the setting of international disaster response, an important challenge is determining when it is appropriate to withdraw deployed assets as the acute disaster response transitions to recovery and rebuilding. We describe our experience with realtime data collection during our medical response to Typhoon Haiyan as a means to guide military aid mission parameters.

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