Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization and Deployment, Volume 1

Military Preventive Medicine: Mobilization and Deployment, Volume 1
Author: Patrick Kelley
Publisher: Department of the Army
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-01-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780160505003

Textbooks of Military Medicine. Patrick Kelley, specialty editor. Explores the various natural and manmade challenges faced by today's soldier upon mobilization and deployment. Offers comprehensive research on a range of topics related to preventive medicine, including a historic perspective on the principles of military preventive medicine, national mobilization and training, preparation for deployment, and occupational and environmental issues during sustainment.

Textbooks of Military Medicine: Military Preventive Medicine, Mobilization and Deployment, V. l, 2003

Textbooks of Military Medicine: Military Preventive Medicine, Mobilization and Deployment, V. l, 2003
Author:
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 728
Release:
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780160873119

Textbooks of Military Medicine. Patrick Kelley, specialty editor. Explores the various natural and manmade challenges faced by today's soldier upon mobilization and deployment. Offers comprehensive research on a range of topics related to preventive medicine, including a historic perspective on the principles of military preventive medicine, national mobilization and training, preparation for deployment, and occupational and environmental issues during sustainment.

Medical Aspects of Harsh Environments

Medical Aspects of Harsh Environments
Author: Kent B. Pandolf
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN:

Describes and illustrates the medical conditions caused by heat and cold, including topics ranging from heat illness prevention to the treatment of hypothermia. Provides historical background and current information on the physiology, physical derangements, psychology, prevention, and treatment of heat- and cold-related environmental illnesses and injuries. Contains a color atlas of cold injuries and their treatment.

Resource Utilization and Development

Resource Utilization and Development
Author: Shri Kamal Sharma
Publisher: Northern Book Centre
Total Pages: 654
Release: 1992
Genre: Conservation of natural resources
ISBN: 9788172110321

The relationship between resources and development is the pivot around which the present study revolves. Focussing on the process of resource creation and utilization it emphasizes the need of equitable development integrating local needs, resources, people and functions. The resource exploitation and their utilization are two independent economic activities influenced by different algorithms and usually have manifested in core-periphery relationship. Reviews the persistent problems of economic development in perspective of exploitation of natural resources with the objective to provide some clues for occurrence and persistence of regional disparities and for suggesting a development model synchronising both the resource management and environmental protection.

Military Preventive Medicine

Military Preventive Medicine
Author: Patrick W. Kelley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2006-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781422306857

This is the first major US textbook on military preventive medicine for more than 60 years. It reflects the evolution of preventive medicine in the military from its traditional focus on field hygiene & infectious disease control to encompassing the wide range of threats & scenarios associated with modern military service. Force health protection has, in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, received especially explicit, thorough, & vigorous emphasis within the DoD. Contents: Sect. 1: A Historic Perspective on the Principles of Military Preventive Med.; Sect. 2: Nat. Mobilization & Training; Section 3: Preparing for Deployment: & Sect. 3: Occupational & Environmental Issues During Sustainment. Over 100 color & black & white photos & illustrations.

War Surgery

War Surgery
Author: Christos Giannou
Publisher:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2009
Genre: Amputees
ISBN:

Accompanying CD-ROM contains graphic footage of various war wound surgeries.

Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan

Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309152852

Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Many service members and veterans face serious challenges in readjusting to normal life after returning home. This initial book presents findings on the most critical challenges, and lays out the blueprint for the second phase of the study to determine how best to meet the needs of returning troops and their families.