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. 2024 Sep 23:2024:10.31478/202409a.
doi: 10.31478/202409a. eCollection 2024.

Pediatric Disaster Science: Understanding Needs, Highlighting Imperatives, and Leveraging Opportunities

Cinnamon A Dixon  1 , Richard K Kwok  1 , Lorah Ludwig  2 , Lori Peek  3 , Christopher Newton  4 , Jeffrey Upperman  5 , Jonathan White  6 , Debra L Weiner  7
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Pediatric Disaster Science: Understanding Needs, Highlighting Imperatives, and Leveraging Opportunities

Cinnamon A Dixon et al. NAM Perspect. .
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FIGURE 1. Pediatric Disaster Science: Science and Evidence that Envelopes and Penetrates the Disaster Management Cycle with a Focus on Children
SOURCE: Dixon, C. A., R. Kwok, L. Ludwig, L. Peek, C. Newton, J. Upperman, J. White, and D. Weiner. 2024. Pediatric disaster science: Understanding needs, highlighting imperatives, and leveraging opportunities. NAM Perspectives. Discussion Paper, National Academy of Medicine, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.31478/202409a NOTE: Disaster management cycle: preparedness, response, recovery, and prevention and mitigation. Science and evidence should be sought to envelop, penetrate and drive every aspect of the disaster management cycle with a focus on children.
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FIGURE 2. Translational Science Principles: Scientific and Operational Approaches
SOURCE: NCATS (National Center for Advancing Translation Sciences). 2024. About translational science. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Available at: https://ncats.nih.gov/about/about-translational-science (accessed June 17, 2024). NOTE: Translational science principles and their operational and methodologic approaches can be used across all aspects of pediatric disaster science.
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