β Scribed by David R. Steinbruner (auth.), Adriaan P. C. C. Hopperus Buma, David G. Burris, Alan Hawley, James M. Ryan, Peter F. Mahoney (eds.)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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.
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 βOperation Phoenixβ: 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
Emergency Medicine; Traumatic Surgery; Surgical Orthopedics; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine; Nursing
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