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Medical supply management after natural disaster.

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Cover of: Medical supply management after natural disaster.
Medical supply management after natural disaster.
1983, Pan American Health Organization, Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization
Paperback in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1 : Problems in medical supply management.
Background
Examples of medical supply mismanagement
Part 2 : Planning medical supply management.
Organizational structure for medical supply management
Securing locations and access
Acquisition and requisition
Distribution and transportation
Communication
Training personnel
Legal aspects of disaster relief
Audits of medical supply management plan
Part 3 : Responding to disaster.
Centralized reporting system
Preparation of a list of essential medical supplies
Inventory preparation and control
Medical supply distribution, field receipt (sorting and storing), and requisition of supplies
Training new members of the medical supply management relief team
International medical supplies assistance
Part 4 : Annexes.
Emergency health kit : World Health Organization / UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Replacements for items on the list of essential drugs for emergencies
Essential medical supplies for disaster relief : quantities and bulk procurement costs
Quantities and gross weight of essential medical supplies
Cross-index INN/Proprietary names of pharmaceuticals
The role of vaccines in disaster-related medical supply management
Marking and labeling of relief consignments (League of Red Cross Societies)
Medical supply management component in disaster relief legislation
Evaluating the relief effort

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 129.
"Published also in Spanish (1983) as: Suministros médicos con posterioridad a los desastres naturales"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.

Published in
Washington, D.C
Series
Scientific publication / Pan American Health Organization ;

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.1/09181/2 s, 362.1/8
Library of Congress
RA10 .P252 no. 438, RA645.5 .P252 no. 438, RA10.P252 no. 438

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xii, 135 p.
Number of pages
135
Dimensions
23 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3244044M
ISBN 10
9275114382
ISBN 13
9789275114384
LCCN
83159717
OCLC/WorldCat
9606717
Library Thing
8888348

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