Third Stage, Management in Disaster and Education for Disaster Medicine

Postgraduate Education in Disaster Health and Medicine

INTRODUCTION Education is key to effective disaster management. This study reviews several postgraduate educational programs in disaster medicine. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in two stages between October 2011 and February 2012. An online search was completed, followed by a web-based survey to collect information on key aspects of the identified programs. RESULTS Thirty...

Disaster Management and Emergency Medicine in Malaysia

Disaster Medicine

Combined with the author's lucid writing style and the intimate portraits ofthose individuals described in the text, the present work presents some fascinating insights into our understanding ofthe stress-disease connection. The book's most debilitating weakness comes from the heavy reliance on one-sided case-report and anecdotal data in many of Mate's inferences and conclusions. Presenting dat...

Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management Standards for Hospitals

Background and Objective: Hospitals play an important role in protecting the health and survival of people during disasters. Despite the development of risk management programs worldwide in recent years, hospital preparedness in disasters is low and one reason for that is the lack of hospital standards for disaster preparedness. This study aims to develop hospital accreditation standards for ho...

ethical dilemmas in disaster medicine