Textbook of Maritime Medicine

1. 13.9 Preventive Services
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... preventative services to their national seafarers. In many instances these services are not available to the seafarer, neither in their home country nor while on duty. Some countries do offer governmental ...

2. 17 Crisis Intervention
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/17. Crisis intervention)

... not surprising that the introduction of crisis intervention into shipping is still in the beginning. Starting in the military Navies of various countries regulations have been established for crisis intervention, ...

3. 10.13 Seasickness (Motion sickness)
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... some of the seasick symptoms such as drowsiness, headache, and vertigo. There are also rather different policies and practices in the use of motion sickness remedies found in different countries and ...

4. 10.3 Disorders of the Skin
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... infections doubled from 36% to 74% [9]. The challenges related to methicillin resistance vary considerable worldwide with certain countries experiencing only few problems while resistance is a major public ...

5. 10.11 Sexually transmitted diseases – STD’s
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... occurring in developing countries, in particular sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. STD’s and their complications rank among the top five disease categories in developing countries for which adults seek health ...

6. 11.5 Ship noise and its effects on seafarers’ health
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/11. Maritime occupational Medicine)

... duration of exposure. Generally, in industry, we calculate the Leq for a period of 8 hours per day, which is a normal working hours in Western countries. The Leq (8h) is regarded as a source of hearing ...

7. 10.10 Gastrointestinal Diseases
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... inter-continental voyages, and at a time when more deaths occurred in foreign countries with less chance of an autopsy being undertaken [1]. There have also been substantial improvements in diagnostic ...

8. 10.2 Soft tissue and joint diseases
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... Some countries may go further than that by demanding the complete absence of any such condition of even minor severity and also of other mild locomotor ailments, thereby consequently preventing the employment ...

9. 19.8 Research collaboration and research institutions for maritime medicine
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

... of researchers, permits learning from disciplines other than ones own, and researchers in less developed countries may get inspiration to improvements from colleagues in more developed and wealthier countries. ...

10. 19.6 Ethical concerns and research standards in maritime medicine
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

... regulates all biomedical research. In many countries the ethical applications in study protocols for biomedical projects are to be approved by a regional or national committee. Register studies and studies ...

11. 19.4 Research methods
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

... even if the source population is unknown. A multinational surveillance study of accident reporting in a number of countries has provided valuable results in spite of this constraint [4]. An analytical ...

12. 19.1 Science and research in maritime medicine
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

... maritime health and safety should always be balanced. This may sound easy but practical constraints flourish. In developed countries, the technical and economical achievements and therefore also the practical ...

13. 4.5 International Maritime Health Association[1]
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/4.Organisations of importance to Maritime Medicine)

... was organized by national committees, and with cooperation between interested professional environments in different countries. From the 5th ISMH, these symposia have been organized under the IMHA umbrella, ...

14. 4.1 World Health Organization
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/4.Organisations of importance to Maritime Medicine)

... policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends[2].  Although shipping and seafaring are not mentioned specifically in the mandate of the organization, ...

15. 4 Organizations of Importance to Maritime Medicine
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/4.Organisations of importance to Maritime Medicine)

  A very prominent feature of the shipping industry is its international character. Many different countries are involved in the construction, ownership, operation, manning, survey and inspection of ...

16. 16.6 International response
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/16. Piracy at Sea)

... of Aden transit zone. Other countries, outstandingly Russia, China and India have deployed naval forces to conduct anti-piracy operations in the region.  The NATO force named “Operation Allied Protector”, ...

17. 16.4 Factors behind the Acts of Piracy and armed Robbery
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/16. Piracy at Sea)

... some of the countries of this area and a great economic recession at a general level. The Malacca Straits sees two thirds of all the oil produced that is moved by sea, passing through its narrow waterways. ...

18. 16.8 Conclusions
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/16. Piracy at Sea)

... in countries with emerging economies, numerous estuaries and offshore islands, large stretches of remote coastal areas, and ongoing political insurgencies. Efforts to combat and punish piracy as a crime ...

19. 16.5 The Somalia-Horn of Africa region
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/16. Piracy at Sea)

... was overthrown in the early 1990s by the clan-based warlords, the state lost control of its own coastal waters, and began the sporadic first phase of Somali piracy. Trawlers from other countries were able ...

20. 16.3 Pirates today and their Modus Operandi
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/16. Piracy at Sea)

... areas. This problem has worsened in the last years, in such a way that the robbery of the cargo is an endemic trouble in many countries and in some ports generally “soft” in their pursuit; and it seems ...