I.4 Disaster Medicine Policy in Latvia

Disaster Medicine

Combined with the author's lucid writing style and the intimate portraits ofthose individuals described in the text, the present work presents some fascinating insights into our understanding ofthe stress-disease connection. The book's most debilitating weakness comes from the heavy reliance on one-sided case-report and anecdotal data in many of Mate's inferences and conclusions. Presenting dat...

ethical dilemmas in disaster medicine

Ethical Dilemmas in Disaster Medicine

BACKGROUND Disasters may lead to ethical challenges that are different from usual medical practices. In addition, disaster situations are related with public health ethics more than medical ethics, and accordingly may require stronger effort to achieve a balance between individual and collective rights. This paper aims to review some ethical dilemmas that arise in disasters and mainly focuses o...

History of Disaster Medicine

Erik Noji, mentioned, tongue in cheek, Noah as the first disaster manager during a lecture in 2005. The canonical description of "The Genesis Flood" does describe Noah as a master planner and executer of an evacuation of biblical proportions. After gaining knowledge of a potential catastrophic disaster he planned and executed an evacuation to mitigate the effects of the "Genesis Flood" by build...

Disaster Avoidance, Disaster Relief, and Policy Coordination in a Federation

This paper presents a general equilibrium analysis of disaster policy in a federation. The national government is postulated to offer optimal disaster relief, a policy that creates moral hazards for subnational government and private sector decisionmakers. In equilibrium, subnational governments, which compete for mobile productive resources, choose inefficiently low amounts of costly disaster ...