Preparing for a Rapid Response to Major Marine Oil Spills: Protecting and Assessing the Health and Well-Being of Communities: Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division. 10/27/2017 This nine-page document summarizes a workshop held on August 2-3, 2017, to explore research needs and other opportunities for improving public health preparedness, response, and protection related to oil spills; consider how to work within and how to complement the existing oil spill response framework to improve the protection of community health and well-being; and inform discussions about how the Gulf Research Program and other divisions of the National Academies can support these efforts. (Text)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - October 28, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news