Health & health facilities

This book is a collaborative effort by many agencies and technical leaders to challenge the leaders from the whole-of-society to help unify experiences and resources to successfully manage and mitigate the impact of future pandemics and other global

The Guidance Notes on Assessment and Mitigation Planning for Risk Reduction (AMPRR) present general steps for assessment of schools and hospitals within the view of mitigation planning. Schools refers to all educational institutions and hospitals refers

A consortium of aid agencies and community development initiative groups has initiated disaster risk reduction campaigns in northern Kenya in a bid to prevent and manage the impact of drought, hunger, climate change and diseases on local populations...

'Hospitals went from being open and welcoming to patients and visitors to taking a hard look at how we could protect patients and visitors' said Patrick Gildner, manager of emergency preparedness and security, at Southern Ocean Medical Center in Manahawkin for 32 years...

The framework, based on five guiding principles, is designed to guide the formulation of country-specific action plans that will form the health component of national change adaptation plans...

Nepal is advancing national preparedness for emergencies in hospitals and medical facilities with a training course called Hospital Preparedness for Emergencies (HOPE). With the support of the Institute of Medicine, Ministry of Health and Population, Government of Nepal and Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), the doctors, nurses, and hospital administration personnel are developing new skills to save lives in disasters...

Selon Actu-environnement, les chercheurs de l'Institut australien sur le climat estiment que les catastrophes naturelles ont un impact sur la santé mentale des populations touchées...

In Spanish:

El boletín de Salud Pública y Gestión del Riesgo para América Latina y el Caribe del CRID, correspondiente al mes de agosto, incluye, entre otras noticias, información sobre el avance de la región en la implantación del Programa Hospitales