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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on September 26, 2006
The European Journal of Public Health 2007 17(1):6-7; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckl080
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Recommendations to improve post-disaster HIA: planning before the disaster

Pierre Verger1, Marc Ruijten2, David Russell3 and Thierry Lang4

1 Observatoire Régional de la Santé, Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur, Marseille, France
2 Centre for Health Impact Assessment of Disasters (CGOR), RIVM MGO (mailbox 10), PO Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands
3 Chemical Hazards and Poisons Division, The Centre for Chemicals Radiation and Environmental Hazards, The Health Protection Agency, Cardiff, Wales, UK
4 Institut Fédératif de Recherche 126 Santé, Société Inserm U558 et Institut National de Veille Sanitaire, Toulouse, France

Correspondance: Pr Thierry Lang, Inserm U558, IFR 126 Santé Société, Faculté de Médecine, 37, Allée Jules Guesde, 31073 Toulouse, France, e-mail: lang@cict.fr

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Establishing the health impact of a disaster as completely, reliably, and credibly as possible is essential to provide information for a democratic debate about all of the issues (health, social, and economic) that these events might raise. Health Impact Assessment of disasters may provide essential information for designing, adjusting, and implementing the aftercare activities following a disaster, and improve decisions about future risk prevention and choices in . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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