Biological Disaster: Its Impact on Health and Its Management

Contents: Preface. 1. Problems of biological disasters in developing countries. 2. Evaluation and management of pediatric disaster victims. 3. Disaster preparedness. 4. Syndromic surveillance. 5. Disaster management standards. 6. Disasters and Public Health. 7. Preparedness and response. 8. Practical considerations of disaster preparedness. 9. Biological and chemical terrorism: Strategies for preparedness and response. 10. Biological Terrorism and its impact on children. 11. Disaster management-role of forensic expert. 12. Natural disasters in north-east region and its management. 13. Seismicity and tectonics. 14. Disaster management: The development perspective. 15. Biological warfare mass casualty management. Bibliography. Index.

“Prior to designing disaster prevention and response strategies, sit is critical to understand the physical and social environment surrounding terror agents. The responders to biological, chemical, or physical attack must be able to determine the following: where the agent is in the environment, where it will spread, who will be exposed, what quantity of the agent to which the victims may be exposed, what will happen to the exposed, what must be done to reduce exposure and how to best treat victims. To answer those questions, it is necessary to understand the harmful agent, how it reaches the human body and the health effects that it has on the body.

Disasters pose a variety of health risks, including physical injury, premature death, increased risk of communicable diseases and psychological effects such as anxiety, neuroses and depression. Destruction of local health infrastructure-hospitals, doctor’s offices, clinics is also likely to impact the delivery of health care services. A second wave of health care needs may occur due to food and water shortages and shifts of large populations to other areas. This book discusses in detail about the Biological disasters and their impact on human kind.”