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Countermeasures Against Earthquake Disasters in Relation to Medical Treatment in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Yutaka Osawa
Yutaka Osawa
Affiliation:
Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo and the International Association for Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, Japan.
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Planning of earthquake disaster prevention is of great concern in Japan, since we have frequently been subjected to serious damage due to severe earthquakes. The medical treatment after a disastrous earthquake is undoubtedly one of the most serious items to be considered.

The countermeasures against earthquake disasters, in relation to medical treatment, may be divided into two categories; a) prevention of damage to medical facilities and instruments, b) planning for emergency and disaster medicine. This paper introduces the countermeasures against earthquake disasters in relation to medical treatment in Japan.

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Research Article
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Contributions from the Third World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Rome, Italy, May, 1983 , 1987 , pp. 99 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1987

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