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Definition and Classification of Disasters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

W. H. Rutherford
W. H. Rutherford
Affiliation:
From theRoyal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, United Kingdom; and the International Working Party on the Definition and Classification of Disasters (chairman: WH Rutherford) of the International Trauma Foundation, Salisbury, UK.
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An International Working Party on the Definition and Classification of Disasters, sponsored by the International Trauma Foundation, developed recommendations on the definition and classification of disasters. The party consisted of: WH Rutherford (Chairman), Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast UK; Dr. Jacob Adler, Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel; Dr. Peter Baskett, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol UK; Dr. Jan De Boer, Het Nieve Spittal, Warnsveld, Netherlands; Professor Bo Brismar, Department of Surgery, Huddinge, Sweden; Dr. Rudolf Frey, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Mainz, West Germany; Dr. Olafur Jonson, Borgarspitalinn, Reykjavik, Iceland; Dr. Stanely Miles, International Trauma Foundation, Salsbury, UK; Dr. Ronald Stewart, University of Pittsburgh, USA; Dr. Henryk Zielinski, League of Red Cross Societies, Geneva, Switzerland.

Type
Part III: International Organizations - Planning - Disaster Events
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 342 - 345
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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