Health & health facilities

En Uruguay varias instituciones realizarán una actividad relacionada al Día para la Reducción de Riesgos de Desastres en el Sector Salud, el cual permitirá reflexionar sobre la importancia de prevenir, mitigar y responder con rapidez a los riesgos de su producción...

The Republic of China Red Cross Society will continue a US$3.1 million project to help with healthcare and disaster risk reduction in five tsunami-hit countries...

Le réchauffement climatique a des conséquences encore mal cernées dans l'émergence et le déplacement des maladies. Cette problématique sanitaire constitue d'ailleurs un volet du Plan national d'adaptation au changement climatique, selon CATNAT...

Environmental hazards series:

This book, to be released on October 31, 2011, is a compelling interdisciplinary analysis of California's efforts to ensure that acute care hospitals survive earthquakes and continue to function in the aftermath. It weaves

'Schools can be an important catalyst in the overall risk reduction agenda and what this project aims to do is to develop a toolkit to move the process of knowledge enhancement forward,' said Dr. Balfour Spence...

In Spanish:

En el boletín Actualidad CRID de agosto podrá encontrar información sobre la participación del CRID en el DIPECHO VII América del Sur, los acuerdos alcanzados en la última Cumbre del SICA sobre gestión del riesgo y el cambio climático, las

'We need to immediately put in place measures for recovery, resilience and work more intensively in disaster risk reduction,' said Olivia Yambi, UNICEF Country Representative in Kenya...

'Strengthening health infrastructure and educating communities in vulnerable areas are the key tools,' said Aditya Prasad Dash, regional advisor for vector-borne and neglected tropical diseases at the WHO's regional office for South-East Asia (SEARO).