The public health dimensions of disasters.
Material type: TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1990Description: 11p., 14 refsReport number: CommercialSubject: Disaster medicineSubject: Disasters constitute an important health problem. They may cause deaths, injuries; and long term handicaps; they obliterate or compromise health facilities and services and they affect health and health service provision by jeopardising economic development. There has been an increasing realization that appropriate management of disasters, to prevent and/or mitigate their effects is possible. The author deals with four time phases of disasters: the anticipatory phase; the pre-impact phase; the impact phase; the relief phase; and finally, the rehabilitation phaseSubject: Public healthSubject: Public safetySubject: Sanitary engineeringItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Reprint from International Journal of Mental Health; 1990; Vol 19 No 1; pp70-79
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Disaster medicine
Disasters constitute an important health problem. They may cause deaths, injuries; and long term handicaps; they obliterate or compromise health facilities and services and they affect health and health service provision by jeopardising economic development. There has been an increasing realization that appropriate management of disasters, to prevent and/or mitigate their effects is possible. The author deals with four time phases of disasters: the anticipatory phase; the pre-impact phase; the impact phase; the relief phase; and finally, the rehabilitation phase
Public health
Public safety
Sanitary engineering
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