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The Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine is a practical guide covering all aspects of the provision of care in humanitarian situations and complex emergencies. It includes evidence-based clinical guidance, aimed specifically at resource limited situations, as well as essential non-clinical information relevant for people working in field operations and development. The handbook provides clear recommendations, from the experts, on the unique challenges faced by health providers in humanitarian settings including clinical presentations for which conventional medical training offers little preparation. It provides guidance for syndromic management approaches, and includes practical guidance on the integration of context specific mental health care.
The handbook goes beyond the clinical domain, however, and also provides detailed information on the contextual issues involved in humanitarian operations, including health systems design, priorities in displacement, security and logistics. It outlines the underlying drivers at play in humanitarian settings, including economics, gender based inequities, and violence, guiding the reader through the epidemiological approaches in varied scenarios. It details the relevance of international law, and its practical application in complex emergencies, and covers the changing picture of humanitarian operations, with increasingly complicated and chaotic contexts and the escalation of violence against humanitarian providers and facility.
The Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine draws on the accumulated experience of humanitarian practitioners from a variety of disciplines and contexts to provide an easily accessible source of information to guide the reader through the complicated scenarios found in humanitarian settings.
Offers practical, first-hand guidance from experienced humanitarian practitioners across disciplines, including international groups such as Medecins San Frontieres
Includes clinical information for conflict, displacement, and low-resource settings, as well as clear support on everything from logistics and economics to law and security
Provides the framework for the humanitarian practitioner to make the best decisions possible in challenging settings
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Oxford Handbook of
Humanitarian Medicine
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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Symbols and abbreviations
Humanitarianism Today
Practical and professional issues in humanitarian medicine
Introduction to humanitarian medicine
Responses and responders
Health priorities in displacement
Health systems design
Gender-based violence in humanitarian crises
Mental health in humanitarian settings
Epidemiology
Understanding economic effects of humanitarian intervention
International law for healthcare workers
Security
Medical care under fire: a perspective from the international medical organization
Médecins Sans Frontières
Medical logistics in humanitarian settings
Working for international organizations
Approach to clinical humanitarian medicine
Approach to clinical care in humanitarian contexts
Mass casualty triage
Medical triage
Approach to paediatric care
Syndromic management
Shock
Fever
Anaemia
Pain
Jaundice
Lymphadenopathy
Cough and breathlessness
Oedema
Patient with unintentional weight loss
Diarrhoea and vomiting
Malnutrition
Infectious diseases
Malaria
Neglected tropical diseases
Tuberculosis and HIV in humanitarian contexts
Clinical suspicion of Ebola
Venomous animal bites and stings and marine poisoning
Global impact of antimicrobial resistance
Response to epidemic disease
Clinical guidelines
Cardiac conditions
Respiratory illness
Gastrointestinal illness
Neurology
Urology
Reproductive health
Obstetrics
Neonatology
Ophthalmology
Ear nose and throat
Chronic non-communicable diseases
Palliative care
Surgery and procedures
Major trauma
Medical management of the surgical abdomen
Wound care and minor surgical procedures
Burns
Orthopaedics and limb injuries
Investigations and studies
Laboratory
Blood transfusion
Ultrasound
Water sanitation and waste
Water sanitation and hygiene
Medical waste management