Crisis zone medicine:
BMJ Group resources
This page links to all BMJ Group content on crisis zone medicine, including resources for medical teams working in disaster, conflict, or humanitarian situations.
BMJ Group education
- ABC of conflict and disaster - natural disasters
- ABC of conflict and disaster - public health in the aftermath of disasters
- Leading health services in difficult circumstances
- Relief medicine forum
- HINARI accessibility
- Major incident management
- Climate change and health: the basics of climate science and the impacts of climate change
- Advice on earthquake medical relief from Fukushima
BMJ Group research
- Physiological demands of mountain rescue work
- Rescue efforts management and characteristics of casualties of the Wenchuan earthquake in China
- Developing the role of emergency physicians in humanitarian assistance and disaster response
- Lessons learnt from the past and preparedness for the future - how a developing country copes with major incidents
- Measuring violence against women amidst war and displacement in northern Uganda using the "neighbourhood method"
- Temporal and spatial characteristics and treatment strategies of traumatic brain injury in Wenchuan earthquake
- Timing of mortality among internally displaced persons due to tsunami in Sri Lanka - cross sectional household survey
- Predictors of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder after the AZF chemical factory explosion on 21 September 2001, in Toulouse, France
- Medical experience of a university hospital in Turkey after the 1999 Marmara earthquake
- War-related stressors are associated with asthma risk among older Kuwaitis following the 1990 Iraqi invasion and occupation
BMJ Group news & comment
- Hospitals in Syria have become instruments of suppression says Amnesty
- Some charges against Bahraini doctors are dropped but more serious crimes are added
- Bahraini health workers to be retried before a civilian court
- Irish surgeon's college admits it questioned Bahraini medical students after being contacted by government
- Promise of retrial was for Western eyes only
- Bahraini doctors are promised civilian trials after protests over harsh sentences
- Support Bahrain's imprisoned doctors
- An elected Libyan government should restore order to the health system
- Doctors who treated protesters in Bahrain are given 15 year sentences
- Until the hour of separation
- Injured Syrian protestors are removed from beds as forces target hospitals
- A cure for the disease of hate
- Japan's suicide rate is expected to rise after triple disasters in March
- Medical staff detained in Bahrain are released on bail after hunger strike
- Bahraini doctors start hunger strike over arrests and trials in military court
- Agencies prepare to deal with mental health problems of Libya after 42 years of repression
- Gaddafi's forces attacked hospitals, patients, and health professionals, report confirms
- Delivering healthcare in situations of conflict or violence
- Attacks on healthcare professionals risks health of millions, says Red Cross
- WHO launches online library of guidance on treating malnutrition
- After the nuclear incident, Fukushima has now been hit by floods
- Bahraini authorities force MSF to leave the country
- Agencies warn of impending disaster on Sudan's disputed border
- UN intensifies relief efforts as Somali famine is predicted to spread
- Charities criticise rich countries "shameful" response to famine in Horn of Africa
- Human rights group calls on Bahrain to release medical personnel and remove security forces from hospitals
- Famine and disease threaten millions in drought hit Horn of Africa
- Altruism and medicine
- Somali children are increasingly caught up in country's 20 year conflict
- The medical ethics of the battlefield
- The killing of doctors in Iraq must stop
- Malnutrition soars in Horn of Africa as crisis worsens by the day
- Medical groups press Bahrain over detention of doctors
- South Sudan: a nation born in crisis
- Bahraini doctors deny anti-state activities
- Women peace laureates urge protection for women in armed conflict
- Crush syndrome in the rural setting
- Libya has hit me hard
- BMJ Group Awards: Medical Team in a Crisis Zone: Medical responses to a clear and present danger
- UN body condemns Syria for use of lethal violence against protestors and for denial of access to medical treatment
- Sri Lankan government knowingly shelled hospitals, says UN report
- Chernobyl 25 years on
- Sphere Handbook (3rd edition) for humanitarian aid workers launched
- Lessons from Fukushima: Patients' psychological distress
- Protecting public health after major radiation emergencies
- Panic about nuclear apocalypse overshadows Japan's real plight
- The 99: a story on health, cross-cultural cooperation and acceptance in times of crisis
- Training in epidemiology and disease control for humanitarian emergencies
- Haiti: the emergency is over
- Haiti: I want to go back
- The UK medical response to the Sichuan earthquake
- Epidemiological data on health of military personnel participating in the UK's chemical defence programme
- Responding to disasters
- Perceived health change in the aftermath of a petrochemical accident: an examination of pre-accident, within-accident, and post-accident variables
- Mental health in disaster settings
- Do doctors who volunteer their services in disasters overseas do more harm than good?
- Learning from conflict and disaster in the Eastern Mediterranean region
- Providing nomadic people with healthcare
- Achieving food security in vulnerable populations
- Aid after disasters
- Death by tsunami and poverty
- The tsunami and the dangers of goodwill
- How psychiatrists can play their part in the tsunami relief effort
- New York besieged: 11 September and after
- What happened to the elderly people in the great Hanshin earthquake (1996)
- The South Manchester Accident Rescue Team and the earthquake in Iran, June 1990
- Dialysis for acute renal failure due to crush injuries after the Armenian earthquake (1989)
- The Yokohama Earthquake - some medical experiences (1923)
- Experiences during the recent earthquake in Jamaica (1907)
BMJ podcasts
BMJ and doc2doc blogs
doc2doc forum discussions
External links
- WHO: Guidelines on emergency surgical care in disaster situations
- Cochrane Collaboration: Evidence Aid Project
- Harvard program in refugee trauma
- WHO: Psychological first aid - guide for field workers
- WHO: Health Action in Crises
- Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters: The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi
- Medical Management of Individuals involved in Radiation Accidents (ARPANSA)
- Role of libraries in disaster situations
- University of Birmingham module on disaster management
- PAHO: Management of dead bodies in disaster situations
- UK International Emergency Trauma Register: Emergency doctors in international disasters presentation
- WHO Europe: Disaster preparedness and response
- WHO: disaster activities, reports, news, events, contacts, and partners
- UN: disaster resilience systems
- World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine: homepage
- Merlin: homepage
- Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre: homepage
- RedR: homepage
- National Disaster Management Authority of India: disaster resilience mechanism
- Cochrane: Resources for Japanese earthquake and tsunami
- Cochrane: Radiation sickness
- Medscape: Bioterrorism and disaster medicine resource centre features
- CDC: Guidance for relief workers and others travelling to Haiti for earthquake response
- NRC: Advice on potassium iodide and radiation release from Japanese reactors
- Pitt: Japan Earthquake, March, 2011-03-11 (This will be continuously updated)
- Pitt: General Earthquake information
- Pitt: Public Health Consequences of Earthquakes
- Pitt: Nuclear health (In Japanese)
- Pitt: Tsunami
