Health Care

Disaster Planning

Procedures outlined for the care of casualties and the maintenance of services in disasters.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Procedures outlined for the care of casualties and the maintenance of services in disasters.

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Synonyms

9 entry terms
  • Disaster Management
  • Management, Disaster
  • Planning, Disaster
  • Disaster Relief Planning
  • Disaster Training
  • Emergency Preparedness
  • Planning, Disaster Relief
  • Preparedness, Emergency
  • Relief Planning, Disaster

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Aspects Covered

8 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings economics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specify disaster (IM) if pertinent; specify geog if pertinent

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History Note

1978; for EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS use CIVIL DEFENSE 2008-2023

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Previous Indexing

  • Disasters (1966-1977)

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  1. N06.230w.100w.035w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Disaster Planning. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004189. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004189
  2. Disaster Planning. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness
  3. Disaster Planning. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4583103