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Ken Abraham

Bio: Ken Abraham is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Natural disaster & Disaster medicine. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 49 citations.

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TL;DR: This paper profiles natural disasters, transportation incidents, emerging infectious diseases, complex disasters and terrorism for their historical and future potential impact on Australasia.
Abstract: Disaster epidemiology reveals epidemic increases in incidence of disasters. Rare disasters with catastrophic consequences also threaten modern populations. This paper profiles natural disasters, transportation incidents, emerging infectious diseases, complex disasters and terrorism for their historical and future potential impact on Australasia. Emergency physicians are in a position to assume leadership roles within the disaster management community in Australasia. The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine is in a position to lead medical specialty advances in disaster medicine in Australasia. To optimize its impact in disaster medicine, the specialty and its College have opportunities for advances in key areas of College administration, intra and interinstitutional representation, disaster preparedness and planning, disaster relief operations, education and training programs, applied clinical research, and faculty development.

52 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual grounding of vulnerability and adaptation to climatic hazards from the environmental and social sciences has not been widely applied in terms of health, though key progress is being made particularly in relation to climate change, where key themes relate to health concerns, exploring connections with existing health literatures, and developing an organizing framework to aid analysis of how vulnerability to health impacts varies within society.
Abstract: Floods, windstorms, drought and wildfires have major implications for human health. To date, conceptual advances in analysis of vulnerability and adaptation to climatic hazards from the environmental and social sciences have not been widely applied in terms of health, though key progress is being made particularly in relation to climate change. This paper seeks to take this conceptual grounding further, examining how key themes relate to health concerns, exploring connections with existing health literatures, and developing an organising framework to aid analysis of how vulnerability to health impacts varies within society and how actors make decisions and take action in relation to climatic hazards and health. Social science research on this theme is challenging in part because of the complex mechanisms that link hazard events to health outcomes, and the many-layered factors that shape differential vulnerability and response within changing societal and environmental contexts (including the dual effect of hazards on human health and health systems, and the combination of ‘external’, ‘personal’ and ‘internal’ elements of vulnerability). Tracing a ‘health impact pathway’ from hazard event through health risk effects to health outcomes can provide a research tool with which to map out where the different factors that contribute to vulnerability/coping capacity come into effect.

181 citations

01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-analysis of an Australian nursing partnership to improve disaster response capacity and concludes that the partnership should be extended to include medical professionals from outside Australia.
Abstract: To cite this document:Marion Lucy Mitchell Benjamin Mackie Leanne M Aitken Loretta McKinnon , (2014),"Evaluation of an Australian nursingpartnership to improve disaster response capacity", Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal, Vol. 23Iss 5 pp. -Permanent link to this document:http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2014-0069Downloaded on: 06 October 2014, At: 19:42 (PT)References: this document contains references to 0 other documents.To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.comThe fulltext of this document has been downloaded 10 times since 2014*

104 citations

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TL;DR: This study suggests a disaster training program for South Australian emergency nurses would be beneficial and the need for future research into appropriate disaster education and training for health professionals is highlighted by the study.

95 citations

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TL;DR: Standardising disaster education and making it more available will not only increase the level of disaster awareness but will help to make nurses feel less vulnerable when having to face the unexpected.

83 citations