This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Observations and Recommendations From Three Recent Missions

Trueman W. Sharp, MD, MPH; Ray Yip, MD, MPH; John D. Malone, MD

JAMA. 1994;272(5):386-390.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

THE US MILITARY has a long tradition of providing emergency humanitarian relief after armed confrontation and disaster, and often to peoples of other nations. After World War II and the Vietnam War, as well as after many smaller conflicts, US forces provided supplies and medical services to thousands of refugees and displaced persons.^1-3 Following earthquakes in Peru (1970) and Nicaragua (1972), flooding in Sudan (1988), volcanic eruption in the Philippines (1990), and tropical cyclones in East Bengal (1970), Sri Lanka (1978), and Bangladesh (1991), the US military dispatched medical teams and relief supplies to assist disaster victims.^4-7 Also, US military forces participated for humanitarian purposes in the United Nations (UN) intervention in Korea and more recently in Kurdistan⁸ and Somalia.⁹ A US military hospital is currently in Zagreb, Croatia, to provide medical care for UN peacekeeping forces in the former Yugoslavia and possibly to displaced persons . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Naval Medical Research Institute (Dr Sharp) and National Naval Medical Center (Dr Malone), Bethesda, Md, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga (Dr Yip).

Footnotes
The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy or position of the US Navy or the US Department of Defense.

Reprint requests to Naval Medical Research Institute Annex, 12300 Washington Ave, Rockville, MD 20852 (Dr Sharp).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?