Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine A Practical Guide
The second revised, expanded and updated edition of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide provides a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment. Since the first edition was written in 2002, there have been seismic changes following on from th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Springer London
2009, 2009
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2009 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Players and Paradigms
- Baghdad Christmas
- New Paradigms: The Changed World Since 9/11
- The World Seems to be Crumbling Around Us
- The Spectrum of Conflict
- The Players: Humanitarians, Militaries, Industry and Private Security Companies
- Interfaces
- Conflict and the Media
- Remote Medicine
- Disasters, Public Health, and Populations
- Disasters: An Overview
- Responding to Acute Humanitarian Crises: Health Needs Assessment and Priorities for Intervention
- The Military Approach to Medical Planning
- Health Risk Management Matrix: A Medical Planning Tool
- Surveillance and Control of Communicable Disease in Conflicts and Disasters
- Health Planning in Action: Rwanda Crisis
- Health Planning in Action “Operation Phoenix”: A British Medical Aid Program to Sarajevo
- Health Care of Prisoners and Detainees
- Populations and People
- Introduction: Living and Working
- Getting There and Being Involved
- Safety and Security
- Voices from the Field
- Applied Communications in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine
- Mental Health
- Introduction: Hospitals and Health Systems
- Conflict Recovery-Health Systems in Transition
- Eating an Elephant: Intervening in Hospitals, Pristina
- Conflict Surgery: A Personal View
- Military Health Services Support in Conflict
- Military Medical Assistance to Security Sector Reform
- Hospital Blues
- Introduction: Clinical Care
- Trauma and Surgery
- Acute Medical Problems
- Women's Health
- Children's Health
- Conflict, Terrorism, and Disasters: The Psychosocial Consequences for Children
- Introduction: Resources
- Materials and Information
- Rehabilitating Diagnostic Laboratories
- Enablers and Confounders: Achieving the Mission
- Ministry Overlaps Within Health Sectors
- Accreditation in Field Medicine
- Humanitarian Work in the Era of Modernising Medical Careers