Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide

✍ Scribed by David R. Steinbruner (auth.), Adriaan P. C. C. Hopperus Buma, David G. Burris, Alan Hawley, James M. Ryan, Peter F. Mahoney (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer London
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 641
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Baghdad Christmas....Pages 3-3
New Paradigms: The Changed World Since 9/11....Pages 5-12
The World Seems to be Crumbling Around Us....Pages 13-15
The Spectrum of Conflict....Pages 17-30
The Players: Humanitarians, Militaries, Industry and Private Security Companies....Pages 31-73
Interfaces....Pages 75-88
Conflict and the Media....Pages 89-100
Remote Medicine....Pages 101-121
Disasters: An Overview....Pages 125-149
Responding to Acute Humanitarian Crises: Health Needs Assessment and Priorities for Intervention....Pages 151-175
The Military Approach to Medical Planning....Pages 177-187
Health Risk Management Matrix: A Medical Planning Tool....Pages 189-195
Surveillance and Control of Communicable Disease in Conflicts and Disasters....Pages 197-222
Health Planning in Action: Rwanda Crisis....Pages 223-239
Health Planning in Action “Operation Phoenix”: A British Medical Aid Program to Sarajevo....Pages 241-250
Health Care of Prisoners and Detainees....Pages 251-260
Populations and People....Pages 261-263
Getting There and Being Involved....Pages 267-286
Safety and Security....Pages 287-314
Voices from the Field....Pages 315-322
Applied Communications in Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine....Pages 323-344
Mental Health....Pages 345-376
Conflict Recovery-Health Systems in Transition....Pages 379-389
Eating an Elephant: Intervening in Hospitals, Pristina....Pages 391-392
Conflict Surgery: A Personal View....Pages 393-395
Military Health Services Support in Conflict....Pages 397-403
Military Medical Assistance to Security Sector Reform....Pages 405-412
Hospital Blues....Pages 413-413
Trauma and Surgery....Pages 417-492
Acute Medical Problems....Pages 493-526
Women's Health....Pages 527-540
Children's Health....Pages 541-551
Conflict, Terrorism, and Disasters: The Psychosocial Consequences for Children....Pages 553-567
Materials and Information....Pages 571-589
Rehabilitating Diagnostic Laboratories....Pages 591-595
Enablers and Confounders: Achieving the Mission....Pages 597-610
Ministry Overlaps Within Health Sectors....Pages 611-612
Accreditation in Field Medicine....Pages 613-618
Humanitarian Work in the Era of Modernising Medical Careers....Pages 619-624
Back Matter....Pages 625-644

✦ Subjects

Emergency Medicine; Traumatic Surgery; Surgical Orthopedics; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine; Nursing