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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I. Introduction |
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Chapter One: Introduction |
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Chapter Two: Methods Used for Evaluation and Research |
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II. Conceptual Framework |
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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
