Disaster management : medical preparedness, response and homeland security /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
• Subjects: Emergency management.; Disaster medicine.; Disaster Planning.; Civil Defense > methods.; Disaster Medicine > methods.; Emergency Medical Services > methods.; Relief Work.; Education and Training.; Natural Disasters.; Public Services and Infrastructure.; Health Services.; Communication and Mass Media.; Human Health and Biology (General), (Revised June 2002); Human Health and the Environment.; Man.; Communication.; Disasters.; Disease prevention.; Health hazards.; Hospitals.; Medical services.; Patients.; Prophylaxis.; Psychosocial aspects.; Public health.; Public health services.; Social welfare.; Therapy.; Training.; Electronic books.
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This book, composed of 34 chapters, provides a comprehensive discussion on the current state of and emerging trends in the field of disaster management. It is composed of 10 sections: (1) disaster management and homeland security: a prologue; (2) training, mitigation and medical preparedness; (3) th...

Table of Contents:

• A Holistic View to Managing the Inevitable in High-tech and Resource-poor Settings / Rajesh Arora and Preeti Arora
• The Role of the Primary Care Physician in Disasters / Mark K. Huntington
• Manikin Simulation for Mass Casualty Incident Training / Dale S. Vincent and Benjamin W. Berg
• The Role of Social Networking in Disaster Management / Marcia Trainer and Anju Goel
• Regional Disaster Planning for Neonatal Intensive Care / Ronald S. Cohen
• Application of Mobile Grids for Disaster Management / Monideepa Roy and Nandini Mukherjee
• Disaster Point-of-Care Testing: Fundamental Concepts and New Technologies / Gerald J. Kost, Corbin Curtis, Richard Louie and Ann Sakaguchi
• Incident Command Systems / Steven Parrillo and Jean Bail
• Incident Site Command and Control / Anders Ru<U+00cc>¡ter
• Disasters in Medical Care Contexts: Planning for Resilience in Incident Command Personnel and Systems in Hospitals / Douglas Paton and David Allen
• Information Management during the Disaster Medical Support Planning and Execution Phases / Rostislav Stefanov Kostadinov
• Potential Application of Established Pre-hospital and Hospital Synergy in Disaster Management / Jameel Ali
• Process Management of Multiple Casualty Events / Miklosh Bala, Yuval Weiss and Yoram G. Weiss
• Suicide Bombing Response / Aaron Richman, Christopher R. Foerster and Timothy P. Cohen
• Hospital Triage and Bottlenecks to the Flow of Casualties : A Review / Fernando Ture<U+00cc><U+00fd>gano and Itamar Ashkenazi
• Role of Military Hospitals in Handling Chemical and Biological Disasters / Mesut Ortatatli and Levent Kenar
• Initial Management of Mass Casualty Incidents / Robert P. Chilcott
• Emergency Decontamination in Low-resource Settings / Denis Josse and Gilles Barrier
• Radiological Contaminants : Triage, Treatment and Medical Management of Exposed Persons / Edward Joseph Waller
• Superhumanized Antibodies for Biodefence : The Example of Anthrax / Philippe Thullier, Michael Hust and Thibaut Pelat
• Medical Support in the Case of Chemical and Biological Incidents / Kamen Kanev, Christophor Dishovsky and Stoian Tonev
• Gearing up Paraphernalia for the Management of CBRN Emergencies : A Multi-stakeholder Approach is the Need of the Hour / Rajesh Arora, Raman Chawla, Preeti Arora, Pallavi Thakur, Ayush Chowdhary, Rajeev Goel and Rakesh Sharma
• Prophylactic Possibilities in Case of High Risk of Exposure to Nerve Agents / Jiri Bajgar
• Collective Resilience versus Collective Vulnerability after Disasters : A Social Psychological Perspective / Chris Cocking
• Community-based Psychosocial Support : an Overview / Joseph O. Prewitt Diaz
• Disaster Mental Health : A Paradigm Shift from Curative to Preventive Psychiatry / Suresh Bada Math, Naveen C. Kumar, Maria Nirmala Christine and Anish V. Cherian
• Efficient Human Resource Management Contributes to Augmented Societal Resilience in the Aftermath of Disasters : Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami / Preeti Arora, Rupa Gunaseelan and Rajesh Arora
• Managing Disasters from a Health Security Perspective / Nibedita S. Ray-Bennett
• Management of the 2011 Japan Multiple Disasters (Earthquake, Tsunami and Ensuing Disasters) : A View through an International Lens / Preeti Arora, Rajesh Arora, Rupa Gunaseelan, Raman Chawla and J.R. Bhardwaj
• Viewing Mass Casualties from a Hospital Window : Relevant Issues for the Developing World / Shabir Ahmed Dhar, Arshiya Hamid and Tahir Ahmed Dar
• The Immediate Post-disaster Reconstruction Phase : Alternate Care Site Settings and Vulnerable Populations / James C. Hagen and Scott P. Hagen
• Management of Dead following Disasters and Mass Casualty Incidents : Critical Operational Issues Revolve around Human Resources and Logistics / Preeti Arora, Rajesh Arora, Raman Chawla, Rupa Gunaseelan and J.R. Bhardwaj
• Disaster Management : The Socioeconomic Dimension / Kai-Lit Phua
• Fostering Disaster-resilient Communities through Educating Children and Women for Disaster Preparedness, Response and Recovery in Developing Countries / Yasamin O. Izadkhah and Mahmood Hosseini.