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This paper analyzes the period of overlap between response and recovery phases in the Philippines occurred three to seven months post-Typhoon Haiyan from February 2014 to July 2014. It highlights the need to define a period of transition from response to recovery of the health sector as it may have important implications on the health system functioning as a whole.
Drought-affected communities in 3 Papua New Guinea provinces were assessed in Sept-Oct 2015, alongside a rapid gender analysis. This report summarizes needs, capacities, and findings on food security, WASH, livelihoods, health, coping, and recovery.
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 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.
These guidelines provide practical guidance and effective tools for humanitarians and communities affected by armed conflict, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for
This edition of Asian Disaster Management News focuses on disaster recovery: the governance, economics, and social impacts. It includes features on i) recovery planning, ii) the needs of survivors in post-disaster needs assessments, iii) defining the post-disaster financial requirements for recovery, iv) measuring the social impacts of a disaster and in-depth analysis of the disaster’s impact on food security, poverty, health, and livelihoods, v) building institutional capacity for assessment and recovery, vi) resilient recovery, vii) risk insurance.
This report summarizes the results of a health risk assessment from the nuclear accident that followed the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. The assessment was conducted by a group of independent experts convened by WHO and the report represents the first international effort to estimate radiation risks from this accident at the global level.
This report looks at the long road to recovery facing many Haitians, five years after the earthquake that marked a particularly tragic day in Haiti’s history on January 12th, 2010,
