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Disaster Health Management

A Primer for Students and Practitioners

Herausgeber: Fitzgerald, Gerry; Aitken, Peter; Tarrant, Mike; Fredriksen, Marie

Beschreibung

Disaster Health Management is the first comprehensive textbook to provide a standard guide to terminology and management systems across the entire spectrum of disaster health. The textbook provides an authoritative overview of: the conceptual basis for disaster management; systems and structures for disaster management; getting ready for disasters; incident management; recovery; natural disasters; man-made disasters; and strategic considerations. Using examples of broad principles with global application this is an essential text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as for professionals involved in all health aspects of disaster management.

Autor

Gerry FitzGerald is Professor of Public Health in the Faculty of Health at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia, and Director of the Centre for Emergency and Disaster Management. Mike Tarrant holds adjunct appointments including Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health at QUT and in the Department of Tropical Medicine at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. Peter Aitken is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences at James Cook University, Australia. Marie Fredriksen is Lecturer in the Faculty of Health at QUT and a Paramedic with the Queensland Ambulance Service, Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 174mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9781138911185
• ISBN-10: 1138911186
• Artikelnr.: 46164944