Disaster Planning -- organization & administration

Public response to alerts and warnings on mobile devices: summary of a workshop on current knowledge and re…

by National Academies Press (U.S.), National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.))

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Presents a summary of the Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, held April 13 and 14, 2010, in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of the National Research Council's Committee on Public Response to Alerts and …

Major incident medical management and support: the practical approach to pre-hospital incident c…

by Mackway-Jones, Kevin, Advanced Life Support Group (Manchester, Angleterre)

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Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS) is the coursebook for the Advanced Life Support Group's internationally taught training for health care professionals responding to major incidents. The practical approach employed in MIMMS has proved an invaluable aid to bot…

Major incident medical management and support: the practical approach at the scene

by Advanced Life Support Group (Manchester, England), Mackway-Jones, Kevin

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Established as one of the leading texts in major incident management, this text has been updated and revised to bring it into line with current best practice. This new edition has been made even more relevant for an international audience.

Major incident medical management and support: the practical approach to pre-hospital incident c…

by Advanced Life Support Group (Manchester, England), Mackway-Jones, Kevin, Wieteska, Susan

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Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS) is the coursebook for the Advanced Life Support Group's internationally taught training for health care professionals responding to major incidents. The practical approach employed in MIMMS has proved an invaluable aid to bot…

Advancing regulatory science for medical countermeasure development: workshop summary

by Altevogt, Bruce M., Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, Wizemann, Theresa M., Claiborne, Anne B., Institute of Medicine (U.S.)., Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation

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Whether or not the United States has safe and effective medical countermeasures--such as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostic tools--available for use during a disaster can mean the difference between life and death for many Americans. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the s…

Long-term community recovery from natural disasters

by Arendt, Lucy A., Alesch, Daniel J.

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Long-Term Community Recovery from Natural Disasters presents what the authors have learned over two decades from more than two dozen community disasters in and outside the United States. Based on their experiences, they provide a set of practical, cost-effective steps for both r…

Introduction to emergency management

by Phillips, Brenda D., Neal, David M., Webb, Gary R.

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Emergency management university programs have experienced dramatic and exponential growth over the last twelve years. This new, fully updated edition introduces majors and minors to the field and provides content accessible to those students taking introductory emergency managem…

Health emergency preparedness and response

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Introduction : why do we need to prepare? / Dr. Chloe Sellwood and Andy Wapling -- The planning process / Dr. Chloe Sellwood and Andy Wapling -- Risk assessment / Jacky Bush -- Writing an emergency plan / Andy Wapling -- Emergency planning and response : working in partnership /…

Health emergency preparedness and response

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This book aims to provide a series of informative descriptions of key elements of health emergency preparedness and response that are underpinned by real-life examples. The book is divided into 17 chapters, as follows: introduction on the need to prepare for health emergencies; …

Health emergency preparedness and response

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Intensely practical and down to earth, this timely new text covers the breadth of health emergency preparedness, resilience and response topics in the context of inter-disciplinary and whole society responses to a range of threats. It includes public, private and third sector ro…

Public health humanitarian responses to natural disasters

by Chan, Emily Ying Yang

fromRoutledge humanitarian studies series

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The pressure of climate change, environmental degradation, and urbanisation, as well as the widening of socio- economic disparities have rendered the global population increasingly vulnerable to the impact of natural disasters. With a primary focus on medical and public health h…

Public health humanitarian responses to natural disasters

by Chan, Emily Ying Yang

fromRoutledge humanitarian studies series

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This book aims at making lessons learnt from previous disasters available and comprehensible to students of disaster medicine, disaster public health and humanitarian studies. Readers will gain insight and theoretical understanding of the public health issues related to disaster…

Introduction to emergency management

by Haddow, George D., Bullock, Jane A., Coppola, Damon P.

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Introduction to Emergency Management, Fifth Edition, offers a fully up-to-date analysis of US emergency management principles. In addition to expanding coverage of risk management in a time of climate change and terrorism, Haddow, Bullock, and Coppola discuss the impact of new e…