Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 3 , Pages 128-129 , September 2009

Pediatric Preparedness for Disasters: Where Are We Now? Current Challenges and Future Directions

  • Michael Shannon, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Emergency Medicine
    • The Center for Biopreparedness
    • Children's Hospital Boston
    • Department of Pediatrics
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and correspondence: Carl R. Baum, MD, FAAP, FACMT, Center for Children’s Environmental Toxicology Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, New Haven, CT.
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  • Carl R. Baum, MD, FAAP, FACMT

      Affiliations

    • Center for Children's Environmental Toxicology, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, New Haven, CT

References 

  1. ‘The birds are on fire.’ Opinion, The New York Times, September 18, 2001. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/18/opinion/the-birds-are-on-fire.html?scp=6&sq=children+world+trade+center&st=nyt. Accessed 6/22/09.
  2. Schonfeld DJ. Are we ready and willing to address the mental health needs of children? Implications from September 11th. Pediatrics. 2004;113:1400–1401
  3. Chemtob CM, Conroy DL, Hochauser CJ, et al. Children who lost a parent as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001: registry construction and population description. Death Stud. 2007;31:87–100
  4. Chemtob CM, Nomura Y, Josephson L, et al. Substance use and functional impairment among adolescents directly exposed to the 2001 World Trade Center attacks. Disasters. 2009;33:337–352
  5. Save the Children. The disaster decade: lessons unlearned for the United States. Washington, DC: Save the Children, U.S. Programs 2009. Available at: http://www.savethechildren.org/publications/usa/disaster-decade-lessons.pdf.Accessed June 23, 2009

PII: S1522-8401(09)00059-7

doi: 10.1016/j.cpem.2009.07.005

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 10, Issue 3 , Pages 128-129 , September 2009

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