Field Guide to Global Health & Disaster Medicine, 1st Edition
Author :
James A. Chambers
Date of Publication: 08/2021
While serving as a physician overseas in resource-poor countries, Dr. James Chambers recognized the need for a practical, portable reference for non-specialist healthcare providers to orient them to common issues when serving in new situations, wheth
...view more
While serving as a physician overseas in resource-poor countries, Dr. James Chambers recognized the need for a practical, portable reference for non-specialist healthcare providers to orient them to common issues when serving in new situations, whether due to geography, austere environments, or complex humanitarian disasters. Field Guide to Global Health and Disaster Medicine draws on the experience, training, and perspectives of committed healthcare providers from diverse nations and backgrounds to provide the most essential information for maximum utility in the field—whether in a refugee camp, operating room, disaster response scene, or other demanding environment.
While serving as a physician overseas in resource-poor countries, Dr. James Chambers recognized the need for a practical, portable reference for non-specialist healthcare providers to orient them to common issues when serving in new situations, whether due to geography, austere environments, or complex humanitarian disasters. Field Guide to Global Health and Disaster Medicine draws on the experience, training, and perspectives of committed healthcare providers from diverse nations and backgrounds to provide the most essential information for maximum utility in the field—whether in a refugee camp, operating room, disaster response scene, or other demanding environment.
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.
Author Information
By James A. Chambers, MD, MPH&TM, FACS, FCS(ECSA), CPE, Colonel, US Air Force, MC, SFS, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Bring it with you - The Bookshelf app allows you to access books on your laptop, tablet or mobile, so your ebooks go where ever you are - online or offline.
Take notes - Highlight, bookmark and take notes and highlights automatically stay in sync no matter where you make them.
Listen to eBooks - When you need to go screenless, the Text-to-speech tool will read your book aloud.
Powerful search - The searching capabilities allow you to search keywords through all your eBooks, the entire Bookshelf Library and well as on Wikipedia.
Ecological - Manage your environmental impact with paperless books.
How to read your VitalSource eBooks
Purchase your VitalSource eBook on the Elsevier Health site
https://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/field-guide-to-global-health-disaster-medicine-9780323794121.html222150Field Guide to Global Health & Disaster Medicinehttps://www.uk.elsevierhealth.com/media/catalog/product/9/7/9780323794121_2.jpg53.0958.99GBPInStock/Medicine and Surgery/Primary Care / General Practice/Medicine and Surgery/Clinical/General Medicine/Books10017100055255039While serving as a physician overseas in resource-poor countries, Dr. James Chambers recognized the need for a practical, portable reference for non-specialist healthcare providers to orient them to common issues when serving in new situations, whether due to geography, austere environments, or complex humanitarian disasters. Field Guide to Global Health and Disaster Medicine draws on the experience, training, and perspectives of committed healthcare providers from diverse nations and backgrounds to provide the most essential information for maximum utility in the field—whether in a refugee camp, operating room, disaster response scene, or other demanding environment. While serving as a physician overseas in resource-poor countries, Dr. James Chambers recognized the need for a practical, portable reference for non-specialist healthcare providers to orient them to common issues when serving in new situations, whether due to geography, austere environments, or complex humanitarian disasters. Field Guide to Global Health and Disaster Medicine draws on the experience, training, and perspectives of committed healthcare providers from diverse nations and backgrounds to provide the most essential information for maximum utility in the field—whether in a refugee camp, operating room, disaster response scene, or other demanding environment.00add-to-cart97803237941212021ProfessionalBy James A. Chambers, MD, MPH&TM, FACS, FCS(ECSA), CPE20221Book152w x 229hElsevier41610 Aug 2021IN STOCKBy <STRONG>James A. Chambers</STRONG>, MD, MPH&TM, FACS, FCS(ECSA), CPE, Colonel, US Air Force, MC, SFS, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsBooksNoNoNoNoPlease SelectPlease SelectPlease Select
