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Displaying 15 of about 21 resultsClimate change has significant impacts on health both directly, such as injury and death from extreme weather events, or heat illnesses from temperature increases, and indirectly, including malnutrition, increased spread of vector-borne diseases, and impacts on mental health. As part of the response to the threats posed by climate change across all sect…
The Manchester Briefing on COVID-19 is aimed at those who plan and implement recovery from COVID-19, including government emergency planners and resilience officers.
This issue shares lessons from:
Turkey – promoting dignity through free school meals
UK – safe deployment of volunteers in care homes
Papua New Guinea – supporting school children wit…
This study identifies 20 key strategies, grouped according to the health systems functions, that have been found as enhancing health systems resilience in the face of COVID-19. This study is targeted at policy-makers and has two aims. First, it provides national policy-makers with evidence from other countries to assess their own responses to COVID-19 a…
This study aims to confirm whether there was an association between sea visibility and coastal proximity and the mental health of coastal residents a devastating tsunami. No previous study has ever explored the association between coastal exposure and the mental health of residents in a post-disaster context. The authors targeted 15 coastal municip…
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Government of Indonesia
From Risk to Resilience: Towards Sustainable Development for All in a COVID-19 Transformed World
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction is the main global forum to assess and discuss progress on the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The seventh session of the Global Platf…
By Lindsey Fair
Cities as we know them are under attack thanks to COVID-19. Their growth, sustainability and ability to attract investment, tourism and talent are extremely vulnerable during times of crisis. In the last hundred years, cities have seen an increase in crises, pandemics and economic pressures — but not all are hit equally.
Large global c…
More than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing major disruptions in the delivery of essential health services. As attention shifts to recovery, we have an opportunity to build health systems that are more resilient to future health shocks as well as to the impacts of climate change. National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes provide a bas…
A new strategic document was officially presented at the “Lessons learned from COVID-19: getting ready for the next pandemic” event, on 13 September – part of the 71st session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (RC71). Within it are outlined 10 major lessons that have so far been identified by Member States in the Region and their partners. This d…
This report discusses the COVID-19 pandemic will be remembered for generations as an event that impacted significantly on human lives and livelihoods. Health systems were forced to adapt to the far-reaching needs of the people they serve. Health, society and the economy were shown to be inextricably linked. We were reminded that health is the foundation…
This week’s Manchester Briefing summarises a further eight COVID-19 research topics, within three areas: Communities; Systems; Recovery, Renewal, Resilience Frameworks. These projects will contribute to an overarching project. The briefing share COVID-19 lessons from:
Chile – the role of young people in DRR;
UNDRR – the Sendai Framework Voluntary Co…
COVID-19 has shown the importance of robust health systems and the long-term benefits of investing in the health of the population.
A new report from the WHO Barcelona Office for Health Systems Financing has highlighted the need for governments to maintain a higher level of public spending on health for the wider benefit of society despite expected bu…
With the Asia-Pacific experiencing a growth in the frequency and intensity of disasters, investment in reducing our risk to disasters is vital to saving lives and livelihoods, minimising economic loss and ensuring no one is left behind.
The 2022 Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction presents an opportunity for delegates from ac…
This report analyses health spending in 53 countries in the WHO European Region from 2000 to 2018 (the latest year for which internationally comparable data are available). It reviews key patterns and trends in health spending over time and across countries in the following areas:
health spending before the COVID-19 pandemic;
the priority given to h…
By Matthew Conlen, Denise Lu, and James Glanz
The coronavirus pandemic in the United States has raged almost uncontrollably for so long that even if millions of people are vaccinated, millions more will still be infected and become ill unless people continue to wear masks and maintain social distancing measures until midsummer or later, according to a…
Most people are wondering when and how the COVID pandemic will end and there are still no easy answers.
The word “endemic” is regularly mentioned, especially among public health leaders and experts as they discuss potential future scenarios. So, it’s important to define exactly it would mean for COVID to be endemic.
Scientists predict COVID…