Health emergency preparedness and response / edited by Chloe Sellwood and Andy Wapling

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; the planning process; risk assessment; writing an emergency plan; emergency planning and response, and working in partnership; interprofessional working and understanding some emotional barriers and unconscious processes that might influence practice in group and team work; command, control and communication; communications during a health emergency; psychosocial and mental health care before, during and after emergencies, disasters and major incidents; business continuity; training and exercising for emergency preparedness, resilience and response; post-incident follow-up; mass casualty incidents; preparedness and response to pandemics and other infectious disease emergencies; chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear incidents; a military case study; and, health and emergencies in Canterbury, New Zealand, from pandemics to earthquakes..

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

[2016]

Erschienen:

Wallingford Boston: CABI ; 2016

Reihe:

CABI Books

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sellwood, Chloe [HerausgeberIn]
Wapling, Andy [HerausgeberIn]

Links:

doi.org [lizenzpflichtig]
www.cabidigitallibrary.org [lizenzpflichtig]

ISBN:

978-1-78064-455-4

Themen:

Accidents
Agencies and Organizations
Animals
Bioterrorism
Businesses
CC100
Chemicals
Chordata
Communicable diseases
Communication
DD100
DD500
Delivery of health care
Disaster Planning ; organization & administration
Disaster medicine
Disaster planning
Disasters
EE118
EE120
Earth tremors
Earthquakes
Education and Training
Emergencies
Emergency Medical Services
Emergency management
Emergency medical services
Employees
Epidemics
Eukaryotes
Exposure
Flu
Health Economics, (New March 2000)
Health Policy
Health Services
Health care
Health care workers
Health hazards
Hominidae
Homo
Human Health and the Environment
Human Toxicology and Poisoning, (New March 2000)
Human diseases
Infectious diseases
Influenza
Influenza viruses
Katastrophenhilfe
Laws and Regulations
Mammals
Man
Management
Mass casualty incidents
Mental health
Military medicine
Military personnel
Natural Disasters
Natural disasters
Negative-sense ssRNA Viruses
Non-communicable Human Diseases and Injuries
Notfallmedizin
Organization of work
Organizations
Orthomyxoviridae
PP800
Pandemics
Partnerships
Personnel
Planning
Poisons
Policy and Planning
Primates
Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000)
Psychiatric services
Psychosocial aspects
Public Health
Public health
Public health services
RNA Viruses
Radioactive isotopes
Radioactive nuclides
Radioactive wastes
Radioisotopes
Radionuclides
Reviews
Risk Management
Risk assessment
SsRNA Viruses
Staff
Teamwork
Terrorism
Toxic substances
Training
UU350
VV210
VV500
VV600
VV810
Vertebrates
Viral diseases
Viral infections
Viruses
Work teams

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 217 Seiten) ; Illustrationen

doi:

10.1079/9781780644554.0000

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

165899874X