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Health and Disaster Diplomacy in North Korea: Ensuring Access and Accountability in Complex Political Environments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Eugene S. Yim  and
Michael J. VanRooyen
Eugene S. Yim*
Affiliation:
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Division of Disaster Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Michael J. VanRooyen
Affiliation:
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
*
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative14 Story Street, 2nd FloorCambridge, Massachusetts 02138USA E-mail: eugene.yim@post.harvard.edu
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , August 2009 , pp. 294 - 296
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2009

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