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
Author(s): Amy Kravitz, Alexander van Tulleken
Series: Oxford Medical Handbooks
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 1142
Tags: Humanitarian Medicine
Cover......Page 1
Half title......Page 2
Series......Page 3
Oxford Handbook of
Humanitarian Medicine......Page 4
Copyright......Page 10
Foreword......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Contents......Page 17
Contributors......Page 20
Symbols and abbreviations......Page 29
Humanitarianism Today......Page 35
Part I Practical and professional issues
in humanitarian medicine......Page 41
1 Introduction to humanitarian medicine......Page 43
2 Responses and responders......Page 51
3 Health priorities in displacement......Page 67
4 Health systems design......Page 95
5 Gender-based violence in humanitarian crises......Page 123
6 Mental health in humanitarian settings......Page 141
7 Epidemiology......Page 173
8 Understanding economic effects of
humanitarian intervention......Page 195
9 International law for healthcare workers......Page 213
10 Security......Page 235
11 Medical care under fire: a perspective from
the international medical organization
Médecins Sans Frontières......Page 259
12 Medical logistics in humanitarian settings......Page 269
13 Working for international organizations......Page 291
Part II Approach to clinical humanitarian
medicine......Page 305
14 Approach to clinical care in humanitarian contexts......Page 307
15 Mass casualty triage......Page 315
16 Medical triage......Page 329
17 Approach to paediatric care......Page 337
Part III Syndromic management......Page 347
18 Shock......Page 349
19 Fever......Page 365
20 Anaemia......Page 379
21 Pain......Page 387
22 Jaundice......Page 395
23 Lymphadenopathy......Page 403
24 Cough and breathlessness......Page 415
25 Oedema......Page 421
26 Patient with unintentional weight loss......Page 431
27 Diarrhoea and vomiting......Page 439
28 Malnutrition......Page 451
Part IV Infectious diseases......Page 477
29 Malaria......Page 479
30 Neglected tropical diseases......Page 503
31 Tuberculosis and HIV in humanitarian contexts......Page 547
32 Clinical suspicion of Ebola......Page 587
33 Venomous animal bites and stings and marine poisoning......Page 595
34 Global impact of antimicrobial resistance......Page 609
35 Response to epidemic disease......Page 617
Part V Clinical guidelines......Page 641
36 Cardiac conditions......Page 643
37 Respiratory illness......Page 671
38 Gastrointestinal illness......Page 687
39 Neurology......Page 709
40 Urology......Page 737
41 Reproductive health......Page 753
42 Obstetrics......Page 781
43 Neonatology......Page 827
44 Ophthalmology......Page 841
45 Ear, nose, and throat......Page 859
46 Chronic non-communicable diseases......Page 881
47 Palliative care......Page 905
Part VI Surgery and procedures......Page 913
48 Major trauma......Page 915
49 Medical management of the surgical abdomen......Page 925
50 Wound care and minor surgical procedures......Page 943
51 Burns......Page 961
52 Orthopaedics and limb injuries......Page 989
Part VII Investigations and studies......Page 1001
53 Laboratory......Page 1003
54 Blood transfusion......Page 1027
55 Ultrasound......Page 1041
Part VIII Water, sanitation, and waste......Page 1069
56 Water, sanitation, and hygiene......Page 1071
57 Medical waste management......Page 1091
Index......Page 1109
