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Health disaster management : guidelines for evaluation and research in the Utstein style / editors Knut Ole Sundnes, Marvin L. Birnbaum.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Health disaster management. ; Guidelines for evaluation and research in the Utstein style ; I.Publication details: United States : Prehospital Disaster Medicine, c2003.Description: xvi, 177 p. : graphs ; 23 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.025/072 22
Partial contents:
I. Introduction -- Ch. 1: Introduction -- Ch. 2: Current methods used for evaluation and research -- II. Conceptual framework -- Ch. 3: Overview and concepts -- Ch. 4: Conceptual model -- Ch. 5: Functional status, thresholds, indicators, damage, requirements, supplies, and needs -- Ch. 6: Interventions, outcomes, benefits, and costs -- Ch. 7: Responses, relief, and recovery -- Ch. 8: Ethical issues.
Review: This volume provides a discussion of a conceptual framework that forms the organisation necessary for developing an understanding of the pathophysiology of disasters. It outlines the need for a structure for research, and seeks to establish a common nomenclature and set of definitions for communication between the elements that comprise disaster medicine, as well as between disaster medicine and the broader emergency management community.
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Books Books Australian Emergency Management Library BOOK 616.025072 HEA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 900089865

Includes glossary.

Supplement to volume 17 of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine.

Includes bibliographic references.

I. Introduction -- Ch. 1: Introduction -- Ch. 2: Current methods used for evaluation and research -- II. Conceptual framework -- Ch. 3: Overview and concepts -- Ch. 4: Conceptual model -- Ch. 5: Functional status, thresholds, indicators, damage, requirements, supplies, and needs -- Ch. 6: Interventions, outcomes, benefits, and costs -- Ch. 7: Responses, relief, and recovery -- Ch. 8: Ethical issues.

This volume provides a discussion of a conceptual framework that forms the organisation necessary for developing an understanding of the pathophysiology of disasters. It outlines the need for a structure for research, and seeks to establish a common nomenclature and set of definitions for communication between the elements that comprise disaster medicine, as well as between disaster medicine and the broader emergency management community.

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