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Disaster Coordination Needs More than the “Health Cluster”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Richard Zoraster*
Affiliation:
Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services, California, USA
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2010

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