The Political Economy of Mental Illness in South Africa (Routledge Studies in Health in Africa)
by Andre J. van Rensburg
The book describes key socio-political reforms that helped shape post-apartheid South Africa’s mental health system. The author interrogates how reforms shaped public, community-based services for people living with severe mental illness, and how features of this care has been determined, in part at least, by the relations between actors and structures in the state, private for-profit health care, and civil society spheres. A description of the development of South Africa’s post-apartheid heal...
Is your community prepared for a biological terrorism incident? While no community is fully equipped or funded for a major attack, it is possible to develop and implement effective local response plans, protocols, and guidelines. New from Delmar, Preparing for Biological Terrorism contains vitally important information to guide local agencies in their efforts to secure and coordinate the influx of state and federal resources before, during, and after an attack. Mandatory reading for emergency re...
Atlas of Emergency Medicine 5th Edition
by Kevin J Knoop, Lawrence B Stack, Alan B Storrow, and R Jason Thurman
Rotational Molding Technology (Plastics Design Library)
by Huimin Liu, Roy J. Crawford, R. J Crawford, and James L. Throne
This book clarifies and quantifies many of the technical interactions in the process. It distinguishes itself from other books on the subject by being a seamless story of the advanced aspects of the rotational molding process. There are seven chapters within the book. The US market for rotational molding products was one billion pounds in the year 2000. The growth of the rotational molding industry has grown at 10 to 15% per year. With this growth has come an increasing need for details on the c...
Collaboration and Governance in the Emergency Services
by Paresh Wankhade and Swetketu Patnaik
"Globally, emergency services are witnessing a period of unprecedented uncertainty and change caused by pressure on their budgets, reduced manpower and changing patterns of demand and service delivery. Such challenges are also having huge implications on the workforce health and wellbeing. This book is a timely, well-researched addition to improve our understanding of the governance and collaboration issues in the emergency services."Steve McGuirk, Chairman, Warrington and Halton Hospitals Trust...
Mosby's Emt-Basic Textbook (Hardcover) - Revised Reprint - Text and E-Book Package
by Walt Stoy
Building Construction Related to the Fire Service
This textbook matches the course outline and objectives identified by the National Fire Academy's Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) committee for the Building Construction for Fire Protection core course. This new 3rd edition provides the reader with basic instruction about how buildings are designed and constructed and how this relates to emergency operations. In addition to basic construction principles, a new emphasis is placed on firefighter safety, newer types of const...
Mosby's EMT Basic Textbook (Softcover)
by Walt Stoy, Tom Platt, and Debra A LeJeune
Explosives Identification Guide, Second Edition, is an excellent quick reference for emergency responders - providing the necessary information to effectively identify explosives by type, and how each should be treated. Written with a straight-forward, non-technical approach, this book covers both commercial type and military ordnance explosives, and explains bomb search procedures in a manner that is easy to understand. Keeping up to date, this edition also includes an all-new chapter on weapon...
Sea Rescue Mossel Bay Station 15 Mosselbaai
by Station 15 Editorial Team Station 15 Editorial Team
Reading this Golden Jubilee Book is like braving huge waves head-on in a stormy sea. The reader is given a front seat to see what happens inside a sea rescue station, inside the heart of a crewmember and during the decisive moments when saving a life – and, of the never-spoken-about lonely moments in the aftermath of a rescue. These stories are true and authentic, told by crewmembers in their own words. The narrative is divided into five parts: the antecedents to Station 15, the building and...
The 2007 Report on Polyurethane Foam Building and Construction Products
by Philip M. Parker
Police Services
This volume provides fresh insights and management understanding of the changing role of policing against the backdrop of massive cuts in public expenditure experienced and the changing landscape of policing. The challenges of funding, training, online-crimes and cultural transformation are now felt globally. The need to learn and adapt from suitable models of police service delivery have never been greater. The book offers critical insights into the theory and practice of strategic and operatio...
Study Skills for Paramedics, E-Book
by Helen Cobb and Emily Forster
EMT National Training AEMT Practice Questions & Study Guide
by Arthur S Reasor, Ryan L Asher, and Dustin Labrousse
International Approaches to Securing Radioactive Sources Against Terrorism. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series.
Paramedic Care
by Bryan E Bledsoe, Robert S. Porter, and Richard A. Cherry, MS, EMT-P
Paramedic Care: Principles & Practice is the first text program to take the student beyond the skills necessary to practice as a paramedic and into the underlying principles upon which those practices are based. Correlated to the U.S. Department of Transportation's 1998 National Standard Curriculum for EMT--Paramedic, this series of textbooks provides all the background content and skills coverage required for paramedic education. The series, comprised of five books, covers all eight modules of...
Cadets - Music Workbook 1
Erste Hilfe Am Berg
by Christian Burkle, Josef Burger, Alexander Egger, Stefan Heschl, Tobias Huber, Markus Isser, Matthias Pimiskern, Roland Rauter, and Schiefer Joachim
Medicine for the Outdoors E-Book
by Tate Higgins, Ali S Arastu, and Paul S. Auerbach