Meets CAAHEP standards on emergency preparedness for many health programs. Emergency preparedness has become an important new competency for all allied health professionals - expected by employers and required for accreditation in many areas of allied health. It is now a hot topic in all areas of health career education. Many college instructors are now facing a practical question What should we teach students about emergency preparedness? Paradigm's unique textbook provides an authoritative and effective resource for all health career programs.Projects and activities.Definitions of the unique terms and abbreviations of disaster response.Chapter review questions.Appendix of authoritative Web sites to facilitate Internet research assignments.Online Instructor's Guide includes course planning and assessment tools.

Emergency Preparedness for Health Professionals

Medical Books

Landesman, Linda Young

Allied Health Professions

EMC/Paradigm Publishing

Emergency & Disaster Preparedness for Health Professionals

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

Medical Office - Emergency and Disaster Preparedness + 12-month Access Code

Medicine

The third edition of this landmark book consolidates and updates important information on disaster-related resources into one source. It is designed to help the public health profession plan for tasks for which "on the job" is the chief teacher.

Public Health Management of Disasters: The Practice Guide

Amer Public Health Assn

Comprehensive text explores disasters from a public health perspective, examining systems and populations. For health professionals responsible for preparing for and responding to disasters, emergency managers, government officials, and other decision-makers. Includes an epilogue on the September 11, 2001 tragedy. Softcover.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

American Public Health Associa

The fourth edition of Landesman's Public Health Management of Disasters: The Practice Guide continues to serve as the only comprehensive work that provides a thorough foundation regarding Public Health's permanent role and responsibility in relation to the structure, organization and function of health management in emergency management and disaster prevention, preparedness, response, recovery and reconstruction. Updates to the 4th edition takes into account the most current federal preparedness guidance from the National Preparedness Goal, the National Health Security Strategy, and the National Response Framework. Additional updates to emerging approaches for public health surveillance, laboratory and disaster information systems, as well as hospital surveillance in hospitals are included. New threat and hazard identification, alerting and warning systems are profiled along with the use of new electronic technologies to communicate such as smartphone apps and social media such as, texting and twitter. Environment health and occupational health are now two separate chapters that include updates on environmental standards and common foodborne diseases. This book is an essential resource for those who find that by virtue of their work must have more than a core understanding of public health disaster management.

Landesman's Public Health Management of Disasters: The Practice Guide

Burke, Rita V., Ph.D.

Social Sciences

Landesman's Public Health Management Of Disasters

Apha Press, An Imprint Of American Public Health Association

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