Health emergency preparedness and response / / edited by Chloe Sellwood and Andy Wapling

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910627287203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : CABI, , [2016]; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 pages)
• Disciplina: 362.18
• Soggetti: Emergency medical services
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : why do we need to prepare? / Dr. Chloe Sellwood and Andy Wapling -- The planning process / Dr. Chloe Sellwood and Andy Wapling -- Risk assessment / Jacky Bush -- Writing an emergency plan / Andy Wapling -- Emergency planning and response : working in partnership / Simon Lewis -- Interprofessional working : understanding some emotional barriers and unconscious processes that might influence practice in group and team work / Philippa Sully -- Command, control and communication / Peter Thorpe and Anthony Rowe -- Communications during a health emergency / Jennifer Cole -- Psychosocial and mental health care before, during and after emergencies, disasters and major incidents / Richard Williams and Verity Kemp -- Business continuity / James Hebdon -- Training and exercising for emergency preparedness, resilience and response / Rob Ellett and Andy Wapling -- Post incident follow up / Dr. Karen Reddin and Gordon Macdonald -- Mass casualty incidents / Mike Shanahan -- Preparedness and response to pandemics and other infectious disease emergencies / Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam and Pasi MP Penttinen -- CBRN incidents / Professor Robert P. Chilcott and Dr. Stacey M Wyke -- A military case study / David Ross and Andrew Charnick -- From pandemics to earthquakes : health and emergencies in Canterbury, New Zealand / Dr. Alistair Humphrey.