Public health humanitarian responses to natural disasters /

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Author / Creator:Chan, Emily Ying Yang, author.
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2017.
Description:1 electronic resource (xxxiv, 259 pages ).
Language:English
Series:Routledge humanitarian studies
Routledge humanitarian studies series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13031061
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ISBN:9781315667218
1315667215
1138953687
1138953709
9781138953680
9781138953703
9781317357445
1317357442
9781317357438
1317357434
1317357426
Notes:"Earthscan from Routledge."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This book aims at making lessons learnt from previous disasters available and comprehensible to students of disaster medicine, disaster public health and humanitarian studies. Readers will gain insight and theoretical understanding of the public health issues related to disaster and medical humanitarian response and be empowered personally and professionally to take necessary actions in the individual, community and national levels to reduce the health risk posed by the increasing frequency and intensity of disaster. Unlike other disaster-and-health textbooks in the market that have a strong focus on clinical management of victims and require technical knowledge from readers, "Public Health Principles in Disaster and Medical Humanitarian Response" takes a step-by-step approach to deliver a wide array of public health theories in relation to disasters for readers from both medical non-medical backgrounds. This book is comprehensive in its coverage of relevant topics in disaster public health with a unique focus on Asia
Study Program Information:Kursbok.
Other form:Print version: Public health humanitarian responses to natural disasters London ; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. 9781138953680 (hbk)
Standard no.:40027275903