International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters [http://www.ijmed.org/] Mass Emergencies [http://www.massemergencies.org/]1970–presentCenter for Disease Control, and later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Public health, especially epidemiologyDescriptive and some explanatory…
Figure 7.1. Front page of the Boston Globe describing the attack at the Boston Marathon. The bombs were designed to inflict the most damage to the runners’ legs. Because the…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> 16 Decontamination Howard W. Levitin and Christopher A. Kahn Overview Hazardous materials, in various quantities and configurations, are ubiquitous throughout the world. They are key ingredients…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> 13 Syndromic Surveillance Gary A. Roselle Overview Syndromic surveillance has been defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as “a process that…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> 12 Legislative Authorities and Regulatory Issues Ernest B. Abbott and Jeffrey H. Luk Overview Catastrophic disasters disrupt the health and medical system in a variety of…
Figure 9.1. The American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health System PsySTART Model. Used with permission from the American Red Cross. In the absence of rapid triage and coordination between systems,…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> 6 Community Resilience Rose L. Pfefferbaum, Richard Reed, and Betty Pfefferbaum Overview Disaster managers embrace the concept of community resilience, sometimes as a strategy and sometimes…
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> 5 International Perspectives on Disaster Management Jean Luc Poncelet Overview For many years, disasters were perceived as unavoidable and only attributable to “natural” events. Over the…
