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Definition and Classification of Disasters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

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.

Extract

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
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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