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You are a doctor with a medical NGO deployed to provide basic medical care to a camp of internally displaced persons (IDPs) following regional conflict.
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Barker, W. (2013). Complex Emergencies. In: MacGarty, D., Nott, D. (eds) Disaster Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4423-6_4
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