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Managing the Risks of Incorporating Volunteers Into Public Health Emergency Response: The Other Side of the Liability Issue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2013

Elizabeth Fitch
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Keywords

voluntary workershealth personnelpublic healthdisaster responserisk managementmedical reserve corpsliability, legaldisastersenvironmental pollutionpetroleum
Type
Commentary: Medical Reserve Corps
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , October 2010 , pp. 252 - 254
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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2010

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