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Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health

The Psychosocial Aspects of Health Emergencies, Incidents, Disasters and Disease Outbreaks

Richard Williams (University of South Wales) Verity Kemp (Independent Health Emergency Planning Consultant) Keith Porter (University of Birmingham) Tim Healing (Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London)

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English
Cambridge University Press
01 February 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that all emergencies, major incidents and disease outbreaks can have substantial mental health consequences, and it has demonstrated the proven need for additional care for populations in the wake of disasters. This book brings together practice and recent developments in pre-hospital emergency care, emergency medicine and major trauma care with the wellbeing, psychosocial and mental health aspects of preparing for and responding to emergencies, incidents, terrorism, disasters, epidemics, and pandemics. Practical suggestions are included for future planning to provide better care for people caught up in emergencies. Setting it apart from other books on emergency preparedness is its specific focus on the psychosocial demands imposed on staff of healthcare and responding services. Featuring expert contributions from a wide variety of disciplines, this book appeals to people working within mental healthcare, emergency care, pre-hospital medicine, Blue Light services, public health, humanitarian care, emergency planning, and disaster management.

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Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Weight:   922g
ISBN:   9781009011211
ISBN 10:   1009011219
Pages:   482
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Professor Richard Williams OBE, TD, is Emeritus Professor of Mental Health Strategy in the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care at the University of South Wales, UK. He was previously Presidential Lead on Disaster Management for the Royal College of Psychiatrists from 2008 to 2014 and 2017 to 2020, Presidential Lead on COVID-19, Emergency Preparedness and Mental Health from 2020 to 2023, Director of the Psychosocial and Mental Health Programme of the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh from 2018 to 2022 and an adviser to NHS England through the H1N1 and COVID-19 Pandemics. Ms Verity Kemp is an independent consultant specialising in emergency preparedness, resilience, and response, with prior senior management experience in the NHS and healthcare management working at all levels from hospital to central government. In the early 21st Century, she managed the review of NHS emergency planning guidance while associated with the Department of Health's Emergency Preparedness Division. Professor Sir Keith Porter CStJ, is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Traumatology in the University of Birmingham, and a former Consultant Trauma Surgeon and major trauma clinical lead for Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and the West Midlands Trauma Network. He was also civilian clinical lead for interface between the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, UK. He was also Chairman of Trauma Care and co-founder of citizenAID, and Honorary Colonel of 202 Field Hospital RAMC. Dr Tim Healing initially trained in zoology and studied the role of disease in the population dynamics of island dwelling rodents. He trained in clinical microbiology at the Royal London Hospital. He was on the staff of the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre before working for thirty years in humanitarian aid with NGOs and the UN. He ran the Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine Course at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. Professor John Drury is Professor of Social Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK. He teaches psychology for crowd safety to the UK's Fire and Rescue Services and to crowd safety managers. His research on collective resilience informs the Civil Contingencies Secretariat's National Risk Assessments. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he participated in the Independent Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B) that reported to the UK government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).

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