Health emergency preparedness and response / / edited by Chloe Sellwood and Andy Wapling |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : CABI, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 pages) |
Disciplina | 362.18 |
Soggetto topico | Emergency medical services |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910627287203321 |
Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : CABI, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Introduction to pandemic influenza [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jonathan Van-Tam, Chloe Sellwood |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wallingford, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CAB International, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina | 614.5/18 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SellwoodChloe
Van-TamJonathan |
Collana | Modular texts |
Soggetto topico |
Influenza - Epidemiology
Influenza - Prevention |
ISBN |
1-282-49986-6
9786612499869 1-84593-726-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Contributors; Editor Biographies; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Glossary; A; B; C; D; E; H; I; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; Z; 1 Seasonal Influenza: Epidemiology, Clinical Features and Surveillance; 1.1 Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza are Related Diseases; 1.2 Influenza A and B; 1.3 Clinical Features; 1.4 Timing and Seasonality; 1.5 Burden of Illness and Clinical Attack Rates; 1.6 Influenza in Children; 1.7 Diagnostic Certainty; 1.8 Excess Mortality; 1.9 High-risk Illnesses; 1.10 Nosocomial Infection and Outbreaks in Semi-closed Communities
1.11 Surveillance Data on Seasonal Influenza and Pandemic Needs1.12 Summary; 1.13 Summary Points; 2 Basic Influenza Virology and Immunology; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Virus; 2.3 Nomenclature; 2.4 Replication; 2.5 The Immune Response; 2.6 The Variable Virus; 2.7 Pandemics; 2.8 Summary Points; 3 Avian and Animal Influenza: Manifestations in Man; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Avian Influenza in Wild and Domesticated Birds; 3.3 Influenza in Other Species; 3.4 Avian Influenza in Man; 3.5 Managing the Human and Public Health Consequences of Avian Influenza in Poultry; 3.6 Pandemic Preparedness 3.7 Summary Points4 Brief History and Epidemiological Features of Pandemic Influenza; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Prerequisites for Pandemic Influenza; 4.3 Pandemics before the 20th Century; 4.4 Influenza Pandemics of the 20th Century; 4.5 Swine Flu, 1976: a Pandemic Averted?; 4.6 Re-emergence of Influenza A/H1N1 in 1977; 4.7 Antigenic Recycling in Relation to Human Pandemics; 4.8 Will an Avian Influenza Virus Cause a Future Pandemic?; 4.9 Pandemic Preparedness; 4.10 Summary Points; 5 Influenza Transmission and Related Infection Control Issues; 5.1 Introduction 5.2 What is Known about Influenza Transmission?5.3 What is Unknown about Influenza Transmission?; 5.4 What can Reasonably be Deduced about Influenza Transmission?; 5.5 Modes of Transmission of Infection; 5.6 Infection Control Precautions to Counteract Transmission; 5.7 Which Infection Control Precautions are Required for Influenza?; 5.8 Counteracting Droplet Transmission; 5.9 Influenza Transmission: the Evidence For and Against the Different Modes of Transmission; 5.10 The Debate: Current Thinking Regarding Influenza Transmission; 5.11 Counteracting Transmission 5.12 Aerosol-generating Procedures5.13 Translating Evidence on Transmission into Practical Advice; 5.14 Unresolved Questions for Further Research; 5.15 Summary Points; 6 The Role of Emergency Planning, Business Continuity and Exercises in Pandemic Preparedness; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Emergency Preparedness and Business Continuity Planning; 6.3 Interdependency and Interoperability; 6.4 Background to the Role of Exercises in Pandemic Preparedness; 6.5 Types of Exercise; 6.6 Potential Problems in the Design of Pandemic Influenza Exercises; 6.7 Lessons Identified; 6.8 Conclusion 6.9 Summary Points |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910446332403321 |
Wallingford, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CAB International, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pandemic influenza |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : CABI, 2013 |
Disciplina | 614.5/18 |
Collana | Modular texts Pandemic influenza |
Soggetto topico |
Orthomyxoviridae Infections
Epidemics Public Health Public Health Practice Respiratory Tract Infections Respiratory Tract Diseases RNA Virus Infections Disease Outbreaks Medicine Disease Health Occupations Environment and Public Health Virus Diseases Disciplines and Occupations Delivery of Health Care Epidemiology Influenza, Human Communicable Disease Control Pandemics Health & Biological Sciences Communicable Diseases |
ISBN |
1-84593-856-9
9781845938567 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910627284603321 |
[Place of publication not identified], : CABI, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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