TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - The case for an Australian disaster reserve force
JO  - American journal of emergency medicine
A1  - Tin, Derrick
A1  - Hart, Alexander
A1  - Ciottone, Gregory R.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - The black summer bushfires and the current COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated the establishment of Disaster Medicine (DM) into a mainstream medical subspecialty. The systematic healthcare flaws exposed by these two unprecedented events have reiterated the importance of disaster prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. As a result, there have been calls for changes to Australia's disaster management system and specifically for greater involvement of the Australian Defense Force (ADF) to combat this existential national security threat...<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0735-6757
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.10.041
ID  - ref1
ER  -