Disaster Public Health and Older People
Author:   Emily Ying Yang Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:  

9780815356677


Pages:   234
Publication Date:   05 September 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Emily Ying Yang Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780815356677


ISBN 10:   0815356676
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   05 September 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Forewords 1. Introduction 2. Principles and Theories: Health and Public Health 3. Principles and Theories: Ageing Population 4. Principles and Theories: Disaster 5. Contributions of Older People to Disaster Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery 6. Health Impact of Disasters on Older People 7. Post-Disaster Response and Recovery to Meet Health Needs of Older People I 8. Post-Disaster Response and Recovery to Meet Health Needs of Older People II 9. Healthy Ageing, Disaster Mitigation, and Disaster Risk Reduction: Individual, Programmatic, and Global Policy Levels 10. Challenges and Gaps in Disaster Public Health and Issues around Supporting Older People 11. Conclusion

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Emily Ying Yang Chan serves as Professor and Head of the Division of Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine, Professor (by Courtesy) of the Accident and Emergency Unit, and Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She also serves as Director of the Collaborating 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).

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