Medical supply management after natural disaster.
Contributors: Pan American Sanitary Bureau.
Series: Scientific publication / Pan American Health Organization ;
Publisher: Pan American Health Organization, Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9789275114384
Subjects: Emergency medical services.; Medical supplies.; Disaster medicine.; Materials management.; Natural disasters.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 129.
"Published also in Spanish (1983) as: Suministros médicos con posterioridad a los desastres naturales"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part 1 : Problems in medical supply management.; title: Background; title: Examples of medical supply mismanagement; title: Part 2 : Planning medical supply management.; title: Organizational structure for medical supply management; title: Securing locations and access; title: Acquisition and requisition; title: Distribution and transportation; title: Communication; title: Training personnel; title: Legal aspects of disaster relief; title: Audits of medical supply management plan; title: Part 3 : Responding to disaster.; title: Centralized reporting system; title: Preparation of a list of essential medical supplies; title: Inventory preparation and control; title: Medical supply distribution, field receipt (sorting and storing), and requisition of supplies; title: Training new members of the medical supply management relief team; title: International medical supplies assistance; title: Part 4 : Annexes.; title: Emergency health kit : World Health Organization / UN High Commissioner for Refugees; title: Replacements for items on the list of essential drugs for emergencies; title: Essential medical supplies for disaster relief : quantities and bulk procurement costs; title: Quantities and gross weight of essential medical supplies; title: Cross-index INN/Proprietary names of pharmaceuticals; title: The role of vaccines in disaster-related medical supply management; title: Marking and labeling of relief consignments (League of Red Cross Societies); title: Medical supply management component in disaster relief legislation; title: Evaluating the relief effort