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Health Disaster Management: Guidelines for Evaluation and Research - 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
Guidelines Cover
Page Number
I. Introduction
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Methods Used for Evaluation and Research
II. Conceptual Framework
Chapter Three: Overview and Concepts
Chapter Four: Conceptual Model: Hazard, Risk, Vulnerability, and Damage
Chapter Five: Functions, Requirements, Supplies, Damage, and Needs
Chapter Six: Interventions, Effects, Outcomes, Benefits, and Costs
Chapter Seven: Responses, Relief, and Recovery
Chapter Eight: Ethical Issues
Glossary of Terminology

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


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