Analysis of aspects of health care delivery and safety for space tourism and space passengers
| dc.contributor.advisor | Clarence Jernigan, MD | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Richard Jennings, MD | en_US |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Clarence Peters, MD | en_US |
| dc.creator | Joseph Paul Dervay | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-12-20T16:04:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-06-17 | en_US |
| dc.date.available | 2011-12-20T16:04:35Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2008-04-02 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-03-13 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Non-career space travelers from around the world will be venturing into space as commercial programs develop and mature. There are multiple forces promoting human suborbital and orbital flight, including; public interest and desire, market and financial drivers, technological advances, and a paradigm shift from governmental to privately funded space enterprises. This Capstone project seeks to evaluate factors of health and safety related to the space traveling general public. These elements involve: (1) pre-mission medical standards and evaluation, (2) medical risk mitigation, (3) physiological impacts of acceleration, microgravity, and radiation exposure, (4) in-flight medical monitoring and health care delivery, (5) pre-flight training, and (6) regulatory issues. Space tourism has indeed started, and the coming decades will see this dream of flight come true for a sizeable number of participants. | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | etd-04022008-133022 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152.3/88 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the TDL web site by The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works. | en_US |
| dc.subject | suborbital flight | en_US |
| dc.subject | space tourism | en_US |
| dc.subject | space passengers | en_US |
| dc.subject | medical standards | en_US |
| dc.subject | commerical space flight | en_US |
| dc.title | Analysis of aspects of health care delivery and safety for space tourism and space passengers | en_US |
| dc.type.genre | report | en_US |
| dc.type.material | text | en_US |
| thesis.degree.department | Public Health | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | The University of Texas Medical Branch | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | Master | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Public Health | en_US |