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Disaster Coordination Needs More than the “Health Cluster”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Richard Zoraster
Richard Zoraster*
Affiliation:
Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services, California, USA
*
rzoraster@yahoo.com
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 372 - 373
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2010

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