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Field Guide to Global Health & Disaster Medicine

  • 1st Edition - April 14, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Author: James A. Chambers
  • Language: English

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… Read more

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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.

Readership

Clinicians who plan to serve in non-Western or austere settings and/or care for patients from those areas as well as participate in disaster response.

Table of contents

  1. Before You Leave Home: Immunizations and Preventive Measures for Travel

  2. Global Infectious Diseases: Four Steps Toward a Differential Diagnosis

  3. Specific Infectious Diseases

  4. Laboratory Techniques and Procedures

  5. Nutritional Diseases of Low- and Middle-Income Countries

  6. Sexually Transmitted Diseases

  7. Bites and Stings

  8. Global Toxicology

  9. Environmental Diseases and Injuries

  10. Public Health and Field Epidemiology

  11. Refugees and Internally-Displaced Persons

  12. Austere Surgery and Anesthesia

  13. Mental Health in Crisis Regions

  14. Radiological, Biological, and Chemical Agents

  15. Medical Response to Disasters

  16. Considerations for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

  17. Strengthening and Supporting Health Systems

Review quotes

“The book is an excellent resource for all healthcare providers who anticipate or find themselves caring for vulnerable people whether they be refugees, immigrants, displaced persons, or victims of a major weather event, earthquake, or conflict.” - ©Doody’s Review Service, 2021, Anna A Helm, BS, MPH (Multnomah County) Doody’s Score: 90 - 4 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 14, 2021
  • Language: English

About the author

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James A. Chambers

Alan Chambers serves as Director of Biopreparedness in the US National Security Council where he coordinates policy with the Departments of Defense, Health & Human Services, State, Homeland Security and multiple Federal agencies. He's led a wide variety of roles at the Pentagon, White House, Air Force One, and Joint Special Operations Command, commanded a squadron at Joint Base Andrews, deployed medical group in the Middle East, and served as the Command Surgeon (Chief Medical Officer) at US Strategic Command as well as US European Command. Dr. Chambers received his MD and Master of Public Health & Tropical Medicine degrees from Tulane University and completed two residencies before a fellowship at Harvard University. A fellow of the American College of Surgeons as well as the College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa, he has published widely on global health, infectious disease, medical aspects of WMD, and trauma care.
Affiliations and expertise
Colonel, US Air Force, MC, SFS, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

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