Disaster preparedness. Essentials of disaster planning -- Leadership and coordination in disaster health care systems: the U.S. National response framework -- Emergency health services -- Hospital and emergency department preparedness -- Human services in disasters and public health emergencies: social disruption, individual empowerment, and community resilience -- Disaster mental health. Understanding the psychosocial impact of disasters -- Management of the psychosocial effects of disasters -- American Red Cross disaster health services and disaster nursing: national capability-local community impact -- Disaster management. Legal and ethical issues in disaster response -- Crisis communication: the role of the media -- Disaster management -- Disaster triage -- Emergency medical consequence planning for special events, mass gatherings, and mass casualty incidents -- Management of burn mass casualty incidents -- Traumatic injury due to explosives and blast effects -- Global disasters and complex human emergencies. Natural disasters -- Restoring public health under disaster conditions: basic sanitation, water and food supply, and shelter -- Climate change and the nurse's role in policy and practice -- Environmental disasters and emergencies -- Complex humanitarian emergencies -- Disaster relief nursing in the 21st century -- Disasters caused by chemical, biological, and radiological agents. Biological and chemical terrorism: a unique threat -- Surveillance systems for detection of biological events -- Biological agents of concern -- Early recognition and detection of biological events -- Infectious disease emergencies -- Medical countermeasures dispensing -- Chemical agents of concern -- Decontamination and personal protective equipment -- Radiological incidents and emergencies -- High risk high vulnerability populations. Identifying and accommodating high risk, high vulnerability populations in disasters -- Unique needs of children during disasters and other public health emergencies -- Disaster nursing in schools and other community congregate child care settings -- Care of the pregnant woman and newborn following a disaster -- Caring for patients with HIV and AIDS following a disaster -- Special topics in disasters. Information technology in disaster management -- National nurse preparedness: achieving competency based practice -- The role of the public health nurse in disaster response -- Directions for disaster nursing research and development -- epilogue. Disaster recovery: creating sustainable disaster resistant communities -- Appendix. Public health preparedness and response: core competency model -- Appendix II: Glossary of terms commonly used in disaster preparedness and response -- Appendix III: Patient isolation precautions -- Appendix IV: Federal Emergency Management Agency: emergency response action steps -- Appendix V: Creating a personal disaster plan.