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Integrating mental health and disability into public health disaster preparedness and response /

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"Integrating Mental Health and Disability into Public Health Disaster Preparedness and Response brings together the fields of mental/behavioral health, law, human rights, and medicine as they relate to disaster planning and response for people with disabilities, mental and behavioral health con...

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Main Authors: Morrow-Gorton, Jill (Author), Wolf-Fordham, Susan (Author), Snyder, Katherine (Author)
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom ; Cambridge, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann, an imprint of Elsevier, [2022]
Subjects:
Emergency management.
People with disabilities > Care.
Mentally ill > Care.
People with disabilities > Legal status, laws, etc.
Mental health laws.
Personnes handicapées > Soins.
Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Soins.
Emergency management
Mental health laws
Mentally ill > Care
People with disabilities > Care
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frameworks and models of disaster management theory: Setting the stage
  • Populations with disabilities and others with access and functional needs
  • The world approach to disability-inclusive disaster management
  • The impacts of disasters on people with disabilities and chronic physical and mental health conditions
  • Elements of individual resilience
  • The US emergency management and public health preparedness systems
  • Legal issues related to emergencies and disasters: Antidiscrimination and other selected issues
  • Whole community as inclusive emergency management and public health preparedness
  • Building community resilience
  • Promising practices in disability-inclusive disaster management.