@article{ref1,
title="The Role of Public Health Services in Disaster Prevention",
journal="Disaster prevention and management",
year="1992",
author="Costanzo, Santa",
volume="1",
number="1",
pages="online-online",
abstract="Public health authorities have a crucial role to play in disaster prevention. They must identify the source of danger and ensure that it is kept at a level of simple risk bringing into play every preventive measure to guarantee a minimum level of safety. Outlines the importance of impact studies – the potential catastrophic agent is identified and examined with an eye to its reliability and “intrinsic safety”. A second instrument available to public health authorities is vulnerability analysis, namely the relationship between the environment and the population. Stresses the role of education as a “social” intervention in encouraging knowledge and the adoption of a behaviour which will diminish the hazard factors and increase the protection factors.<p />",
language="",
issn="0965-3562",
doi="10.1108/09653569210011129",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09653569210011129"
}