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Displaying 6 of about 6 resultsThis case study outlines the adaptation and roll-out of an Epidemic Control for Volunteers’ (ECV) Toolkit and Training Manual in Myanmar by Myanmar Red Cross Society in 2014.
It includes background on the country's health-related vulnerabilities, the application and outcomes of the intervention, the challenges, and finally, the way forward.
This case study outlines the adaptation and roll-out of an Epidemic Control for Volunteers' (ECV) Toolkit and Training Manual in Indonesia by the Indonesian Red Cross (Palang Merah Indonesia) in 2014.
It includes background on the country's health-related vulnerabilities; the role that Palang Merah Indonesia plays in supporting the government's health…
The report provides an overview of the disaster risk reduction and management in Nepal, a country under threat of multiple natural hazards: earthquakes, floods, landslides, fires, storms, the epidemics, and others. It presents background information on the country, its disaster profile, its legal and institutional framework, the country's achievements i…
Climate and Development, volume 7, issue 3, 2015, doi:10.1080/17565529.2014.951012:
This study examines a Red Cross Red Crescent pilot project in Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Indonesia that incorporated climate information and considerations in health operations.
The investigation looks at three elements of programming: baseline community perceptions…
This report summarizes the results from ASEF Public Health Network's workshop, “Risk Communications for Public Health Emergencies: What to Learn from Real-life Events”, held on 2-3 October 2014, in Oslo, Norway. The report elaborates on the 3 presentations of real-life public health emergencies in recent years: Christchurch earthquake in 2011; SARS (200…
School of Economics and Finance Working paper: 04/2015:
This paper proposes a novel way to aggregate measures of disaster impact, which aims to overcome many of the difficulties previously identified in the literature. This new index is similar, but conceptually different, from the World Health Organization's calculation of Disability Adjusted Life Yea…