Disaster public health and older people / Emily Ying Yang Chan.
| Author/creator | Chan, Emily Ying Yang author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. |
| Copyright Date | ©2020 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xxii, 234 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | Direct link to ebook |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge humanitarian studies series Routledge humanitarian studies series. ^A1276258 |
| Contents | Principles and theories : health and public health -- Principles and theories : ageing population -- Principles and theories : disaster -- Contributions of older people to disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery -- Health impact of disasters on older people -- Post-disaster response and recovery to meet health needs of older people I -- Post-disaster response and recovery to meet health needs of older people II -- Healthy ageing, disaster mitigation, and disaster risk reduction : individual, programmatic, and global policy levels -- Challenges and gaps in disaster public health and issues around supporting older people. |
| Abstract | "Disaster Public Health and Older People introduces professionals, students and fieldworkers to the science and art of promoting health and well-being, preventing diseases and prolonging life among the elderly in the context of humanitarian emergencies, with a particular focus on low and middle-income country settings. This book aims to make lessons learnt from previous disasters available and comprehensible to those working in disaster medicine, disaster public health, humanitarian studies, gerontology and geriatrics, empowering them to take the actions necessary at the individual, community and national levels to reduce the health risk to the elderly posed by disasters"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Biographical note | Emily Ying Yang Chan serves as Professor andHead of theDivision of Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine, Professor (by Courtesy) oftheAccident and Emergency Unit, andAssistant Dean of theFaculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She also serves as Director of theCollaborating Centre for Oxford University and CUHK for Medical and Humanitarian Response (CCOUC). She concurrently holds academic appointments as Visiting Professor (Public Health Medicine) of Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford and Fellow of FXB Center, Harvard University, and is Co-Chair of WHO Thematic Platform for Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management Research Network. She is author/editor of numerous book titles and articles, including Public Health Humanitarian Responses to Natural Disasters (Routledge, 2017), Building Bottom-up Health and Disaster Risk Reduction Programme (2018) and Climate Change and Urban Health (Routledge, 2019). |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 06, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Chan, Emily Ying Yang. Disaster public health and older people Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. 9780815356660 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019980621 |
| ISBN | 9781351127615 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1351127616 electronic book |
| Stock number | 9781351127622 Taylor & Francis |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |