Guidelines for Evaluation & Research

Health Disaster Management: Guidelines for Evaluation and Research in the Utstein Style - Volume One
Health Disaster Management: Guidelines for Evaluation and Research introduces a structural framework for investigations into the medical and public health aspects of disasters including: a standardized, universal set of definitions; a conceptual model for disasters; indicators and standards; descriptions of 14 basic societal functions bound together by a coordination and control function; and a disaster response template and two research templates. The templates are to be used in the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of research and/or evaluations of interventions directed at preventing hazards from becoming a disaster-producing event, mitigating the of such an event on the affected society, and/or responses to a disaster.

Volume One
	Credits, Forward, & Preface	Page Number

	I. Introduction
	Chapter One: Introduction	1
	Chapter Two: Methods Used for Evaluation and Research	25

	II. Conceptual Framework
	Chapter Three: Overview and Concepts	31
	Chapter Four: Conceptual Model: Hazard, Risk, Vulnerability, and Damage	56
	Chapter Five: Functions, Requirements, Supplies, Damage, and Needs	69
	Chapter Six: Interventions, Effects, Outcomes, Benefits, and Costs	103
	Chapter Seven: Responses, Relief, and Recovery	113
	Chapter Eight: Ethical Issues	128

	Glossary of Terminology	144

This work was supported in part by grants from the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Key Words: analysis catastrophe; data collection; definitions description of disaster; disaster; disaster management; disaster medicine disaster phases; disaster research; disaster responses; extrication; health consequences health status; injuries; interventions; measures of effectiveness; medical responses; morbidity; mortality; preparedness; needs assessment; public health; research; research design; research methods; risk evaluation; scope; template; type; Utstein style; warning

Collaborating Organizations:

Mediterranean Club for Burns and Fire Disasters
Nordic Society of Disaster Medicine
Nordic International Rescue Foundation
Organization of African Unity
Swedish National Board on Health and Welfare
United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine

The Task Force on Quality Control of Disaster Management is comprised of the following members:

Jacov Adler, United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Israel
Marvin L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD, United States
Professor Johan Calltorp, PhD, Sweden
Professor S. William A. Gunn, MD, Switzerland
Dr. O.J. Khatib, MD, Organization of African Unity
Professor Michele Massellis, MD, Italy
Ernesto A. Pretto, MD, MPH, United States
Robert Souria, United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs, Switzerland
Knut Ole Sundnes, MD, Norway, (Chairman)
Takashi Ukai, MD, Japan

Other participants:

Dr. Matti Matilla, Finland
Karl-Axel Norberg, MD, Sweden
Edmund Ricci, PhD, United States
Margareta Rubin, Sweden

Correspondence:
K.O. Sundnes, MD Department of Anesthesia Baerum Sykehus, Box 34 NO-1355 Baerum Pt. NORWAY Email: kosundnes@c2i.net	M.L. Birnbaum, MD, PhD 3330 University Avenue, Suite 300 Madison, WI 53792 UNITED STATES Email: mlb@medicine.wisc.edu