When there is no doctor : preventive and emergency home healthcare in challenging times
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- ISBN: 1934170119 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781934170113 (pbk.)
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Physical Description:
194 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
print - Publisher: Port Townsend, WA : Process Media, c2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Our situation -- Where we are, how we got here, where we may be headed -- Where we should be going -- Preparation -- Make your body ready -- Functional fitness for a crash -- Healthy habits -- Nutritional optimization -- Make your mind ready -- Credentials vs. competencies -- Acquiring knowledge and skills -- Medical auxiliary model for sustainable health care -- Non-traditional approaches -- The village university -- Make your spirit ready -- Traits of survivors -- Your psychological survivor kit -- Planning -- First Aid kits -- Medication issues -- Sick rooms -- Special needs populations -- Planning for your pets -- Neighborhood and community analysis: Medical threat assessments -- Suggested First Aid Items (table) -- Preventive medicine -- Infection control -- Hand hygiene -- Hot hand, cold hand -- Cough etiquette -- Personal protective gear -- Sunlight -- Ventilation -- Social distancing -- Waste management -- Dealing with dead bodies -- Management of dead bodies in a disaster -- Health management -- Doing it on the cheap -- Medicine when there is no doctor -- Medicines from nature -- Improvised medicine : When nothing else is available -- Ethics when there is no doctor -- An ethic of sustainability -- Triage -- Security concerns -- Death and dying in very hard times -- Conclusion. |
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Subject: | First aid in illness and injury Medical emergencies Medicine, Preventive Disaster medicine Medical care Emergency management Preparedness |
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Homer Public Library | 616.024 DOY (Text) | 000095293 | Nonfiction | Available | - |