| 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 | ||
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Credits, Forward, & Preface | Page Number |
| I. Introduction | ||
| Chapter One: Introduction | 1 |
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| Chapter Two: Methods Used for Evaluation and Research | 25 |
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| II. Conceptual Framework | ||
| Chapter Three: Overview and Concepts | 31 |
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| Chapter Four: Conceptual Model: Hazard, Risk, Vulnerability, and Damage | 56 |
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| Chapter Five: Functions, Requirements, Supplies, Damage, and Needs | 69 |
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| Chapter Six: Interventions, Effects, Outcomes, Benefits, and Costs | 103 |
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| Chapter Seven: Responses, Relief, and Recovery | 113 |
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| Chapter Eight: Ethical Issues | 128 |
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| Glossary of Terminology | 144 |
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This work was supported in part by grants from the Laerdal Foundation for Acute Medicine and the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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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 |