Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM), now in its 25th volume, is published by the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine.  PDM is one of the leading scientific journals focusing on prehospital and disaster health. It is the only peer-reviewed international journal in its field, published bi-monthly, providing a readable, usable worldwide source of research and analysis. PDM is currently distributed in more than 55 countries. Its readership includes physicians, professors, EMTs and paramedics, nurses, emergency managers, disaster planners, hospital administrators, sociologists, and psychologists.

PDM's mission is the distribution of information relevant to the practice of out-of-hospital and in-hospital emergency medical care, disaster health, and public health and safety. PDM provides an international forum for the reporting and discussion of scientific studies, both quantitative and qualitative, that have relevance to the above practices. The major objectives are: 1) the improvement of the types and quality of the care delivered to patients with perceived medical emergencies and to victims of multicasualty accidents or disasters, including the public health and safety aspects of such events; and 2) the prevention and/or mitigation of the occurrence of such events and of the effects of these events upon the human population and environment.