Assessment of community vulnerability and medical surge capacity in a foreseeable major disaster.

OBJECTIVE:Developing an adequate disaster response capacity involves an assessment of available resources in areas that are vulnerable to disaster. Here, we sought to evaluate the gap between predicted damage in a foreseeable major earthquake versus existing municipality-level resources in Tokyo, Ja...

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Main Authors: Soichiro Kato, Yoshihiro Yamaguchi, Ichiro Kawachi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235425