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Community-based preparedness programmes and the 2009 Australian bushfires: policy implications derived from applying

Colin MacDougall1, Lisa Gibbs, Rachel Clark

  • 1Associate Professor at the Discipline of Public Health and Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, Flinders University, and a Principal Fellow (Honorary) at the Jack Brockhoff Child Health and Wellbeing Program, McCaughey VicHealth Centre for Community Wellbeing, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Disasters
|March 8, 2014
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