Main description:

The Pocket Field Guide for Disaster Health Professionals: Missioncraft in Disaster Relief is a disaster management toolkit containing briefing checklists, systems profiles, assessment forms, reporting templates, project management worksheets, and other tools required in the field. It also provides mission-critical technical reference information adapted from internationally recognized sources.

"Missioncraft" is the art and science of preparing and conducting effective field operations. This Field Guide enables disaster health professionals to collect and analyze critical information and then implement high-impact interventions in field settings.

Tools and reference information are structured in a concise, comprehensive, structured format. Sections are arranged in logical order of relief operations to facilitate application in key field activities. These activities include:

Field briefing

Field assessment

Field recommendations

Field reporting

Field project and staff management

Medical coordination

The Pocket Field Guide for Disaster Health Professionals is an authoritative resource for field-based clinical and public health providers responsible for health outcomes of disaster-affected populations; team leaders and medical coordinators in governmental, non-governmental, Red Cross, and UN agencies; information and program staff supporting technical best practices in relief operations; and, trainers preparing health professionals for field missions.

Contents:

Introduction.- Section 1: Field Briefing.- 1.1: Security Checklist.- 1.2: Medical Handover Checklist.- 1.3: Health System Profile.- 1.4: Emergency Management System Profile.- Section 2: Field Assessment.- 2.1: Rapid Epidemiological Assessment.- 2.2: Site-specific Assessment.- 2.3: Feeding Center Assessment.- 2.4: Population and Infrastructure Damage Estimation.- 2.5: Sectoral Gap Identification.- Section 3: Field Recommendations.- 3.1: Rapid Epidemiological Assessment Recommendations.- 3.2: Recommendations Worksheet.- Section 4: Field Reporting.- 4.1: Rapid Epidemiological Assessment Report.- 4.2: Weekly Health Situation Report.- 4.3: Health Sector Status Summary.- Section 5: Field Project and Staff Management.- 5.1: Project Planning Overview.- 5.2: Project Plan of Action.- 5.3: Logical Framework Definitions and Process.- 5.4: Logframe Template.- 5.5: Project Monitoring and Evaluation Worksheet.- 5.6: Remote Management Worksheet.- Section 6: Medical Coordination.- Core Documents.- 6.1 Medical Coordinator Work Products.- 6.2 Health Cluster Principles of Coordination.- 6.3 Health Cluster Meeting Agenda.- 6.4 Health Cluster Meeting Process.- Section 7: Technical Annexes.- Guidance Notes.- Annex 1 Humanitarian Programs.- Annex 2 Security Sector.- Annex 3 Health Sector.- Annex 4 Tropical Medicine.- Annex 5 Epidemic Preparedness and Response.- Annex 6 Diagnostic Laboratory.- Annex 7 Acronyms.- Section 8 Resilience and Reentry.- Epilogue.