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Disaster epidemiology : methods and applications /
Explains how public health surveillance, rapid assessments, and other epidemiologic studies can be conducted in the post-disaster setting to prevent injury, illness, or death; provide accurate and timely information for decisions makers; and improve prevention and mitigation strategies for future di...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, United Kingdom :
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- History of disaster epidemiology
- Methods: surveillance
- Veterans health affairs, veterans, and disasters
- Applications: using information systems to improve surveillance during disasters
- Applications: shelter surveillance
- Applications: disaster-related mortality surveillance: challenges and considerations for local and state health departments
- Methods: study designs in disaster epidemiology
- Applications: community assessment for public health emergency response
- Applications: assessment of chemical exposures: epidemiologic investigations after large-scale chemical releases
- Methods: questionnaire development and interviewing techniques
- Applications: social vulnerability to disaster (Hampton and Hertford counties
- Isabel)
- Applications: emergency responder health monitoring and surveillance: successful applications
- Methods: data analysis for disaster epidemiology
- Applications: biosurveillance, biodefense, and biotechnology
- Applications: disaster communication and community engagement
- What can disaster epidemiology contribute to building resilient communities?