Humanitarian Supply Management and Logistics in the Health Sector
Humanitarian Supply Management and Logistics in the Health Sector
Humanitarian Supply Management and Logistics in the Health Sector
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Cover photographs: PAHO/WHO<br />
PAHO Library Catalogu<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Publication Data:<br />
Pan American <strong>Health</strong> Organization<br />
<strong>Humanitarian</strong> supply management <strong>in</strong> logistics <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> health sector<br />
Wash<strong>in</strong>gton, D.C.: PAHO, © 2001<br />
189 p.<br />
ISBN 92 75 12375 6<br />
I. Title<br />
1. DISASTERS<br />
2. DISASTER PLANNING<br />
3. DISASTER EMERGENCIES<br />
4. EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES<br />
5. INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE<br />
LC HV553.P187 2001<br />
© Pan American <strong>Health</strong> Organization, 2001<br />
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Emergency <strong>and</strong> <strong>Humanitarian</strong> Action of <strong>the</strong> World <strong>Health</strong> Organization (WHO).<br />
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International <strong>Humanitarian</strong> Assistance Division of <strong>the</strong> Canadian International<br />
Development Agency (IHA/CIDA), <strong>the</strong> Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance of <strong>the</strong><br />
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