Field Guide to Global Health & Disaster Medicine - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 1st Edition

by James A. Chambers, MD, MPH&TM, FACS, FCS(ECSA), CPE

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ISBN: 9780443126741

Publication Date: 01-18-2023

Page Count: 416

Imprint: Elsevier

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Key Features
- 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.
- Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.
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
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James A. Chambers, MD, MPH&TM, FACS, FCS(ECSA), CPE, Colonel, US Air Force, MC, SFS, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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