Overview
- An exhaustive compilation of over 3000 entries that greatly expands on the previous edition
- Presents a standardized terminology for international disaster relief work
- Covers the entire multidisciplinary scope of disaster medicine and humanitarian relief, including climate change and bioterrorism
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (2 chapters)
Keywords
- Conflict and natural disasters
- Disaster management
- Disaster medicine
- Disaster preparedness
- Disaster relief technology
- Global health and NGOs
- Global health and disaster
- Health communication
- Humanitarian relief
- Infectious disease epidemics
- International aid
- International development
- NGO management
- Refugee health
- Relief work
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
S. Wlliam A. Gunn, MD, MS, FRCSC, FRCSI (Hon), DSc (Hon), Dr.h.c., is a Canadian surgeon and senior international health official involved in emergency disaster management and humanitarian medicine. For many years he was director of the Emergency Humanitarian Operations of the World Health Organization, where he conducted numerous field missions, advised governments and the United Nations, organized high level national programmes, lectured at universities and conducted training courses for disaster managers, services that have been recognized by Honorary Doctorates and other high distinctions. Member of many surgical, emergency and humanitarian organizations, Dr. Gunn was a founder, now President Emeritus, of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, is the founding President of the International Association for Humanitarian Medicine, and member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System. Editor of several disaster and humanitarian journals, and author of eighteen books, he has also been head of WHO’s scientific terminology, which explains the multilingual lexicography, standard setting acknowledgement and recognized authority of the initial edition of this Dictionary.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and Humanitarian Relief
Authors: S. William A. Gunn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4445-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-4444-2Published: 14 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-4445-9Published: 14 September 2012
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XXIII, 208
Topics: Public Health