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Connecting Health and Emergency Management: A Review of Disaster Response : Medical and Health Policies by Arnauld Nicogossian and Bonnie Stabile (Ed.)
Author(s) -
Robinson Scott E.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
risk, hazards and crisis in public policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1944-4079
DOI - 10.1002/rhc3.12090
Subject(s) - intersection (aeronautics) , context (archaeology) , field (mathematics) , point (geometry) , work (physics) , public health , emergency management , political science , public relations , sociology , medicine , engineering , history , nursing , law , transport engineering , mathematics , mechanical engineering , geometry , archaeology , pure mathematics
The field of risk, hazards, and crises (if, indeed, it is coherent enough to be called a field) crosses over a staggering array of traditional and emergent academic disciplines. One point of intersection in particular seems to have generated less attention than it warrants—the intersection of disaster research and public health. It is in the context of the noticeable gap between public health work on disasters and work in emergency management that the recent edited volume by Nicogossian and Stabile emphatically stands out. The review will discuss each of the chapters in this volume and conclude with several crosscutting themes that emerge.