A Comprehensive Framework for Managing Health Crises: Contributions from Psychology, Epidemiology, Physical Therapy, Health Services Administration, Radiology, Laboratory Sciences, and Health Informatics

Abstract

Health crises can include epidemics, natural disasters, and humanitarian emergencies and provide the most rigorous examination to any nations' health care system. In active management, such crises involve an interprofessional practice in peculiar forms amongst health care practitioners, policy, and community stakeholders. Some of the key disciplines that try to reduce the impact of crises include psychology, epidemiology, physical therapy, health services administration, radiology, laboratory sciences, and health informatics. It reviews the various disciplines contributing to the management of the health crisis, ending with the proposition of strategies aimed at improving interdisciplinary collaboration in bringing better outcomes in resource-limited and emergency settings.