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Health & Health Facilities
Strengthening capacity and resilience of health systems to anticipate, mitigate and manage situations arising from natural hazards.
WHO: How flooding affects health
20 May 2013, WHO - Europe
If no preventive measures are taken, European studies project that river flooding could affect 250 000–400 000 additional people per year in Europe by the 2080s, more than doubling the numbers for 1961–1990. Rises in sea level and storm surges, which cause coastal flooding, could affect millions more people...
Extracts of progress reports by progress indicator on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action
- Indicator 4.2 [PDF, 102Kb]Social development policies and plans are being implemented to reduce the vulnerability of populations most at risk
- Global platform for disaster risk reduction 2013: Fourth session19-23 May 2013, Switzerland (Geneva)
- Climate change and regional response: Impacts and adaptation strategies for public, commercial and private actors (CCRR-2013)27-29 May 2013, Germany (Dresden)
- Climate Leadership Academy (CLA) on adaptive water resource management and infrastructure24-26 Jun 2013, United States of America (Philadelphia)
- PhD in Risk and Emergency Management (REM)IUSS, Italy (Pavia)
- Post graduate diploma and certificate programme in disaster managementIDMVS; DU, Bangladesh (Dhaka)
- PhD in disaster and emergency healthTehran Univ of Med Sciences, Iran, Islamic Rep of (Tehran)
Floods in the WHO European Region: health effects and their prevention2013, PHE, United Kingdom - gov; WHO - Europe
Disaster response and climate change in the Pacific2013, NCCARF; UTS
Global Risks Atlas 2012Feb 2012, Maplecroft
El Salvador: Healthcare facilities exposed to landslide susceptibility (high - very high)2010, COPECO, Honduras - gov; BGR, Germany - gov; INETER, Nicaragua - gov; INSIVUMEH, Guatemala - gov; SNET, El Salvador - gov
External Online Resources
- Adaptation atlas
- CDC: Emergency preparedness and response (USA)
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- PAHO: hospitals safe from disasters campaign 2008-2009
- Towards a Safer World
- UK Climate Impacts Programme: Adaptation actions database
- UN-Water
- US Environmental Protection Agency: Climate change impacts and adapting to change (by sector)
- WHO and UNEP: Health and Environment Linkages Initiative (HELI), climate change risk for policymakers
- WHO: Health and climate change
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