• Foreword
  • Authors
  • Editorial Board
  • About
Alcaide, Juan Ignacio
Bråtveit, Magne
Bridger, Bob
Briggs, Spike
Buhaug, Kristin
Bygvraa, Despena Andrioti
Canals, Luisa
Carter, Tim
Copeland, Ryan
Cromie, Sam
Dahl, Eilif
Dauer, Ricardo Rodrigues-Martos
de Jongh, René
deBare, Kris
Denisenko Iona
Djurhuus, Rune
Doig, Mike
Earthy, Jonathan
Fagertun, Anette
Froholdt, Lisa Loloma
Grønning, Marit
Gutay, Pasqualito
Haga, Jon Magnus
Hansen, Kaja Irgens
Hansen, Roar
Herttua, Kimmo
Horneland, Alf Magne
Idnani, Suresh N
Ioannidis, Nicholas
Jefferies, Kim
Jensen, Hans Joachim
Jensen, Olaf Cresten
Kavanagh, Bill
Kay, Allison
Kitada, Momoko
Liston, Paul
Loynd, Alan
Lucas, David
Lützhöft, Margaretha Holtensdotter
MacLachlan, Mac
McVeigh, Joanne
Meek, Nigel
Meissner, Dana
Menon, Vivek
Mouchtouri, Varvara
Møllerløkken, Ole Jacob
Myrseth, Tordis
Neuhöfer, Eva Sabine
Nikolic, Nebojša
Oldenburg, Marcus
Panagakos, George
Petrie, Christopher
Roberts, Sandra
Rogge, Evelyne
Schlaich, Clara
Shaw, Natalie
Shimkus, Albert (Al) J, Jr.
Sommerfelt-Pettersen, Jan Knudtzon
Stannard, Suzanne Louise (Sue)
Steenacker, Patrick
Strandenes, Siri Pettersen
Svanberg, Katinka
Tenold, Stig
Tipton, Mike
Tveten, Agnar Strøm
Ulven, Arne Johan
Vanhaverbeke, Elias
Verbist, Rob
Vu, Viet Dung
Weihe, Pál
Williams, Steve

Volumes

Introduction
Foreword
List of abbrevations
Authors
A) Maritime Health and Maritime Medicine
A.1 The current knowledge base
A.1.1 Models
A.1.2 Limitations and opportunities
A.1.3 Scientific validity
A.1.4 Political and ethical constraints
A.1.5 Gaps
A.2 Principles of Health Risk Management
A.3 The Practice of Maritime Health and Maritime Medicine
A.4 Competencies of Professional Staff
A.5 Medical Record Keeping
A.6 Ethics and Confidentiality
A.7 Shipowner liability for illness and injury
A.8 Naval Medicine
A.9 Passenger Health
A.10 Cruise ship medicine
B) Maritime Industry
B.1 Sectors of the Maritime Industry
B.1.1 Merchant Shipping
B.1.2 Passenger shipping
B.1.3 Yachting
B.1.4 Inlands waterways
B.1.5 Fishing industry
B.1.6 Petroleum activities
B.1.7. Offshore wind industry
B.1.8 Professional diving
B.1.9 Sea Pilots
B.2 The Regulatory Framework
B.3 Law of the Sea
B.4 Flag state control
B.5 Port state Control
B.6 Classification Societies
B.7 International collaboration in Maritime Health
C) Working and Living at Sea
C.1 Employment and Resource Management
C.2 General seafaring terms
C.3 Positions on board
C.4 Life on board
C.5 Multinational crews and multiculturalism
C.6 Seafarer's welfare
C.7 Human performance at sea
C.8 Pre employment medical selection
C.8.1 Introduction
C.8.2 Development of standards
C.8.3 Rights to work - antidiscrimination aspects
C.8.4 Heuristic versus evidenc-based
C.8.5 Negative v Positive selection
C.8.6 Different views on risk management
C.8.7 What is 'risk' in medical selection?
C.8.8 A structured approach to the assessment of fitness
C.8.9 Appeals of the decision
C.8.10 Loss of medical certificate following medical assessment
C.8.11 Use of additional laboratory tests
C.8.12 Medical selection in specific sectors of the maritime industry
C.8.13 The doctor's role in medical selection
C.8.14 Approval and training of Doctors
C.8.15 Quality Systems and Assurance
C.8.16 Research and publications
D) Medical care at sea and beyond
D.1 Risk based approach etc
D.2 Impact of a medical incident on board
D.3 Training of officers in medical care
D.4 Medicine chest
D.5 Medical facility on board
D.6 Management of illness and injury on board
D.7 Telemedical assistance services
D.8 Maritime Search and Rescue
D.9 Evacuation of the sick or injured seafarer
D.10 Healthcare of seafarers in ports
D.11 Repatriation
D.12 Rehabilitation of repatriated seafarers
D.13 The role of the P&I club
E) Health risks to seafarers
E.1 Seafarer Injury and Illness
E.2 Application of risk management principles to work-related health risks
E.3 Injury risks
E.4 Chemical Substances
E.5 Radiation
E.6 Noise
E.7 Vibration
E.8 Dangerous Aquatic Organisms
E.9 Ship building and repair
E.10 Obesity
E.11 Dentistry and Oral Health
E.12 Musculoskeletal risks
E.13 Alcohol and drug abuse
F) Human Element
F.1 Introduction
F.2 Influence on safety
F.3 Ergonomics and Health Hazards
F.4 Psychosocial and organisational aspects of work at sea and their implications for health and performance
F.5 Health promotion
G) Public Health and Infectious Diseases
G.1 Introduction
G.2 Epidemiology
G.3 Risk based approach to managment of infectious diseases
G.4 Classification by route of infection
G.5 Droplet-Air-Cluster
G.6 Zoonotic – Environmental Cluster
G.7 Risk based approaches to management of infectious diseases
G.8 Guidelines concerning Infectious Diseases Control on Ships
G.9 Vaccinations in Maritime Medicine
H) Maritime Incidents and Survival at Sea
H.1 Ship incidents
H.2 Immersion
H.3 Abandoning ship
H.4 Abandoned ships and Crew
H.5 Handling of a mass casualty situation on board
H.6 Death at sea
H.7 Crime at sea
H.8 Crime on board a vessel
H.9 Jurisdiction at sea
H.10 Stowaways. Refugees and Persons saved at sea
H.11 History of the textbook
H.12 Maritime history
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