Hawley / Burris / Ryan Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine

A Practical Guide
2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84800-352-1
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 644 Seiten

A 'how-to' book for medical aid workers - doctors, nurses and paramedics - working in hostile environments (natural disasters, man-made disasters, conflict in all its forms and remote or austere industrial settings). This manual provides information on what is going on, how to get involved, how to get ready, guidance on what to do out there, and how to get home bridging the fields of medicine, nursing international relations, politics, economics and history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hawley, Alan

Burris, David

Ryan, James

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface to the Second Edition;5
2;Preface to the First Edition;6
3;Foreword;7
4;Contents;8
5;Contributors;13
6;Introduction: Players and Paradigms;17
6.1;Baghdad Christmas;19
6.2;New Paradigms: The Changed World Since 9/ 11;20
6.3;The World Seems to be Crumbling Around Us;28
6.4;The Spectrum of Conflict;31
6.5;The Players: Humanitarians, Militaries, Industry and Private Security Companies;45
6.6;Interfaces;88
6.7;Conflict and the Media;102
6.8;Remote Medicine;114
7;Disasters, Public Health, and Populations;135
7.1;Disasters: An Overview;137
7.2;Responding to Acute Humanitarian Crises: Health Needs Assessment and Priorities for Intervention;162
7.3;The Military Approach to Medical Planning;187
7.4;Health Risk Management Matrix: A Medical Planning Tool;198
7.5;Surveillance and Control of Communicable Disease in Conflicts and Disasters;205
7.6;Health Planning in Action: Rwanda Crisis;231
7.7;Health Planning in Action “ Operation Phoenix”: A British Medical Aid Program to Sarajevo;248
7.8;Health Care of Prisoners and Detainees;258
7.9;Populations and People;268
8;Introduction: Living and Working;271
8.1;Getting There and Being Involved;273
8.2;Safety and Security;293
8.3;Voices from the Field;321
8.4;Applied Communications in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine;329
8.5;Mental Health;351
9;Introduction: Hospitals and Health Systems;383
9.1;Conflict Recovery-Health Systems in Transition;385
9.2;Eating an Elephant: Intervening in Hospitals, Pristina;396
9.3;Conflict Surgery: A Personal View;398
9.4;Military Health Services Support in Conflict;401
9.5;Military Medical Assistance to Security Sector Reform;408
9.6;Hospital Blues;416
10;Introduction: Clinical Care;417
10.1;Trauma and Surgery;419
10.2;Acute Medical Problems;495
10.3;Women’s Health;529
10.4;Children’s Health;543
10.5;Conflict, Terrorism, and Disasters: The Psychosocial Consequences forChildren;554
11;Introduction: Resources;569
11.1;Materials and Information;571
11.2;Rehabilitating Diagnostic Laboratories;590
11.3;Enablers and Confounders: Achieving the Mission;595
11.4;Ministry Overlaps Within Health Sectors;609
11.5;Accreditation in Field Medicine;611
11.6;Humanitarian Work in the Era of Modernising Medical Careers;617
11.7;Code of Behaviour;623
11.8;Index;624