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.
Helps providers prepare for service overseas, organize data to develop differential diagnoses, assimilate information on infectious and environmental diseases, and effectively serve the patients they will encounter.
Provides concise, easy-to-read coverage of how to approach a differential diagnosis for infectious diseases overseas; nutritional, sexual, and environmental conditions; surgical and anesthesia care; long-term and short-term systems-based challenges, and more.
Covers key topics such as Approach to Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, Medical Response to Disasters, Mental Health in War and Crisis Regions, and Considerations for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
Acknowledges the wide variance of different cultures, motives, resources, and limitations in the global health arena, and helps readers understand the factors which impact the efficacy and sustainability of care strategies.
1. Introduction - p. iii 2. Contents - p. iii 3. List of Tables - p. iii 4. Chapter 1: Before You Leave Home: Immunizations and Preventive Measures for Travel - p. iii 5. Chapter 2: Global Infectious Diseases: Four Steps Toward a Differential Diagnosis - p. iii 6. Chapter 3: Specific Infectious Diseases - p. iii 7. Chapter 4: Laboratory Techniques and Procedures - p. iii 8. Chapter 5: Nutritional Diseases of Low- and Middle-Income Countries - p. iii 9. Chapter 6: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - p. iii 10. Chapter 7: Bites and Stings - p. iii 11. Chapter 8: Global Toxicology - p. iii 12. Chapter 9: Environmental Diseases and Injuries - p. iii 13. Chapter 10: Public Health and Field Epidemiology - p. iii 14. Chapter 11: Refugees and Internally-Displaced Persons - p. iii 15. Chapter 12: Austere Surgery and Anesthesia - p. iii 16. Chapter 13: Mental Health in Crisis Regions - p. iii 17. Chapter 14: Radiological, Biological, and Chemical Agents - p. iii 18. Chapter 15: Medical Response to Disasters - p. iii 19. Chapter 16: Considerations for Pandemic Preparedness and Response - p. iii 20. Chapter 17: Strengthening and Supporting Health Systems - p. iii 21. Index - p. iii
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.
Helps providers prepare for service overseas, organize data to develop differential diagnoses, assimilate information on infectious and environmental diseases, and effectively serve the patients they will encounter.
Provides concise, easy-to-read coverage of how to approach a differential diagnosis for infectious diseases overseas; nutritional, sexual, and environmental conditions; surgical and anesthesia care; long-term and short-term systems-based challenges, and more.
Covers key topics such as Approach to Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons, Medical Response to Disasters, Mental Health in War and Crisis Regions, and Considerations for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
Acknowledges the wide variance of different cultures, motives, resources, and limitations in the global health arena, and helps readers understand the factors which impact the efficacy and sustainability of care strategies.
1. Introduction - p. iii 2. Contents - p. iii 3. List of Tables - p. iii 4. Chapter 1: Before You Leave Home: Immunizations and Preventive Measures for Travel - p. iii 5. Chapter 2: Global Infectious Diseases: Four Steps Toward a Differential Diagnosis - p. iii 6. Chapter 3: Specific Infectious Diseases - p. iii 7. Chapter 4: Laboratory Techniques and Procedures - p. iii 8. Chapter 5: Nutritional Diseases of Low- and Middle-Income Countries - p. iii 9. Chapter 6: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - p. iii 10. Chapter 7: Bites and Stings - p. iii 11. Chapter 8: Global Toxicology - p. iii 12. Chapter 9: Environmental Diseases and Injuries - p. iii 13. Chapter 10: Public Health and Field Epidemiology - p. iii 14. Chapter 11: Refugees and Internally-Displaced Persons - p. iii 15. Chapter 12: Austere Surgery and Anesthesia - p. iii 16. Chapter 13: Mental Health in Crisis Regions - p. iii 17. Chapter 14: Radiological, Biological, and Chemical Agents - p. iii 18. Chapter 15: Medical Response to Disasters - p. iii 19. Chapter 16: Considerations for Pandemic Preparedness and Response - p. iii 20. Chapter 17: Strengthening and Supporting Health Systems - p. iii 21. Index - p. iii
