International Recovery Platform

This report presents the outcome of a project carried out with the aim to establish an efficient system of infection surveillance to cover all of the clinics in Rikuzen-Takata of Japan in the wake of the the Great East Japan Earthquake – using only the resources that were locally available: The project also aimed to maintain this system until most of the evacuation centres would be closed.

This study was conducted to evaluate the main causes and damages of flood (2010) in district Charsadda.

This book identifies and recommends recovery practices and novel programs most likely to impact overall community public health and contribute to resiliency for future incidents. It makes the case that disaster recovery should be guided by a healthy community vision, where health considerations are integrated into all aspects of recovery planning before and after a disaster, and funding streams are leveraged in a coordinated manner and applied to health improvement priorities.