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As a medical administrator, being able to deal with an evolving disaster, whether that is as part of the response to an external disaster or managing an internal failure impacting a hospital’s operation, is a core competency that needs to be developed. In this chapter, health disaster planning is reviewed from an Australian perspective, with special emphasis placed on the principles involved; their application, particularly in preparing, responding and recovering from a disaster; ethical, legal, personnel and organisational considerations, and some critical areas for review, such as burn care and imaging, which have the potential to derail the best prepared plans. By design, this chapter can only introduce the medical administrator to the broad scope of disaster medicine and further resources are included in the bibliography at the end of the chapter.

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  1. Public and Aboriginal Health Division, Western Australian Department of Health, East Perth, WA, Australia

    Andrew Robertson

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  1. Group Chief Medical Officer, St Vincent’s Health Australia, Clinical Professor, Monash University, East Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Erwin Loh

  2. Founding Director, Centre for Health Leadership, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Paul W. Long

  3. Emeritus Professor, Warwick Medical School, Warwick University, Coventry, UK

    Peter Spurgeon

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Robertson, A. (2019). Health Disaster Planning. In: Loh, E., Long, P., Spurgeon, P. (eds) Textbook of Medical Administration and Leadership. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5454-9_9

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