Field Guide to Global Health & Disaster Medicine

Description:


While serving as a physician overseas in resource-poor countries, Dr. James Chambers recognized the need for a practical, portable reference for non-specialist healthcare providers to orient them to common issues when serving in new situations, whether due to geography, austere environments, or complex humanitarian disasters. Field Guide to Global Health and Disaster Medicine draws on the experience, training, and perspectives of committed healthcare providers from diverse nations and backgrounds to provide the most essential information for maximum utility in the field-whether in a refugee camp, operating room, disaster response scene, or other demanding environment.

Table Of Contents:

1. Before You Leave Home: Immunizations and Preventive Measures for Travel
2. Global Infectious Diseases: Four Steps Toward a Differential Diagnosis
3. Specific Infectious Diseases
4. Laboratory Techniques and Procedures
5. Nutritional Diseases of Low- and Middle-Income Countries
6. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
7. Bites and Stings
8. Global Toxicology
9. Environmental Diseases and Injuries
10. Public Health and Field Epidemiology
11. Refugees and Internally-Displaced Persons
12. Austere Surgery and Anesthesia
13. Mental Health in Crisis Regions
14. Radiological, Biological, and Chemical Agents
15. Medical Response to Disasters
16. Considerations for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
17. Strengthening and Supporting Health Systems