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Special Populations: Emergency and Disaster Preparedness

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A new Web page that addresses emergency and disaster preparedness and special populations has been added to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Enviro-Health Links to selected Web sites featuring emergency preparedness for special populations. This includes people with disabilities, people with visual or hearing impairments, senior citizens, children, and women. Links to information in languages other than English are also provided.

• Special Populations: Emergency and Disaster Preparedness
  http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/outreach/specialpopulationsanddisasters.html

* Disabled
* Seniors
* Hearing Impaired
* Visually Impaired
* Women and Gender
* Pregnancy
* Children
* Diabetes
* Native Americans
* Foreign Language Materials
* Información en Español
* Guidance for Organizations and Governments
* Guidance for Employers
* Law and Policy
* Lessons Learned from Prior Disasters
* Searches from the National Library of Medicine

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