Public Health Management of Disasters
Subtitle: The Practice Guide, Second Edition
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Published: March 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780875530451
Subjects: Public Health; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Crisis management; Disaster medicine; Disasters; Health aspects
Description: The 2nd edition consolidates information on disaster-related resources. It is designed to help the public health profession plan for tasks for which "on the job" is the chief teacher. Landesman has recognized striking improvements in disaster readiness in United States, including inter-organizational cooperation and planning among response agencies, and greater technological capability for monitoring and response. Additional information has been added on morbidity and mortality for several new types of disasters; updated structure and organization to reflect changes in federal response and organization including national incident management system, public health incident command, volunteers, Geographic Information Systems and public health response; expanded disaster communications including working with media, communication systems, information technology recovery; surge capacity and surge capacity planning; worker safety; handling human remains; ensuring food safety and feeding large numbers of displaced persons; organizing mental health services, including staff training, setting up assistance services; death notification; disasters and people with disabilities, including building preparedness, disaster planning councils; point of dispensing sites; updated laboratory response network; and maintaining the vaccine cold chain--Publisher's description.