Abstract

Disaster management education is a step forward in generating an understanding of the implications of disasters, their control and management. Need the support of scientific personnel to provide the information and knowledge to forewarn us of impending calamities. Disasters particularly of high magnitude like floods, earthquakes, bomb blasts bring about physical, physiological, psychological and socioeconomic problems. The main objective of the book is to offer integrated, holistic and comprehensive knowledge for operative effectiveness in health management of disasters. The multi-sectorial, multidimensional and coordinated roles including various national and international agencies have been discussed in detail. Many experts have given their efforts to present realistic, holistic and practical approaches in global and country context. The book will be useful to all those who are linked with disaster management such as planners, general administrators, clinicians, nursing professionals, industrialists and non-governmental organizations actively participating in disaster management. The textbook is a gold mine of state-of-the-art knowledge and information concerning disasters as a threat to public health. Most impressive are the extensive learning resources made available to the reader.