Health & health facilities

Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Launches WASH and RESCUE: a 3-yr research project to find solutions saving lives and improving human and environmental health through integrating disaster risk reduction in the area of water, sanitation and hygiene...

'The Disaster Risk Reduction day provides us with an opportunity to educate children on the health impacts of extreme events experienced in the UK such as floods and heat-waves. There is much we can do to lessen the devastating impact natural disasters can have on public health through engaging in education about risk reduction'...

WHO joined the international community in celebrating International Youth Day 2011 under the theme Change the World, 'children and young people have a vital role to play when building community resilience and should be involved in planning for, responding to and recovering from natural disasters'...

PAHO/WHO recognizes and values the important role played by theses students in disaster risk reduction, mitigation and disaster preparedness in communities, and so it joins in the global celebration of the International Day for Disaster Reduction...

The UN office for disaster risk reduction, UNISDR, today marked International Disaster Reduction Day with a call for children and young people to be empowered and engaged in disaster risk reduction as the group most affected by disasters each year.

“Build bridges because every year children miss school in the rainy season when they have to cross gullies, rivers and water channels huge enough to drown them,” a child from Lesotho told the recently launched Children’s Charter on Disaster Risk Reduction.

Vulnerability to natural hazards is rapidly on the increase in Europe, UNISDR Chief, Margareta Wahlström, told the Second Annual European Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction (EFDRR) yesterday in Skopje, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Biometerology: Volume 1, 2009:

Biometeorology has long been concerned with describing and understanding the impacts of weather and climate on humans and their activities and the natural (biosphere) system. Applied biometeorologists have focused on how