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Disaster Risk Reduction, Health, and the Post-2015 United Nations Landmark Agreements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2014

Virginia Murray*
Affiliation:
Publich Health England, Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Rd, London SE1 8UG (E-mail: [email protected]).

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Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2014 

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