Health & health facilities

Communities are learning how to protect themselves, thanks to disaster mitigation, preparedness and awareness programmes carried out by Bangladesh Red Crescent volunteers...

The theme of the the 2008-2009 World Disaster Reduction Campaign is Hospitals Safe from Disasters: Reduce Risk, Protect Health Facilities, Save Lives. During these two years the secretariat of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR)

"With current knowledge and strong political commitment it is possible to protect health facilities from disasters" says assistant Director-General for Heath Action in Crises at WHO. The two-year campaign launches from Davos...

This paper asserts that there is no denying that air and water pollution lead to serious negative impacts on health and various economic goods and services, and addresses the valuation of these impacts. Recent advances in our understanding links to a)

Red Cross Red Crescent and IRI partnership set to address urgent "need to incorporate climate information into disaster-risk reduction and decision making"...

This publication is an analysis of the disaster figures in 2006 compared to 2005 and 2000-04.

CRED has been publishing statistics on disasters every year since 1998, thanks to the generous support of the United States Agency for International Development

The emphasis of the study is very much on process. The study try to explore how project-related systems and practices can be used to ensure that risks emanating from natural hazards are appropriately considered (relative to levels of risk) and also, more

"We realized that we still had a long way to go to be able to fully respond to a disaster of such a scale when it happens so abruptly." Jean-Luc Martinage spoke to Andrews Frimpong, Secretary General of the Ghana Red Cross Society.