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This publication summarizes the more comprehensive guidelines, emphasizing who should use them, when and why. It includes recommendations on how to promote their use among national authorities,...
These guidelines have been prepared to help integrate and mainstream the concerns and issues related to older persons into disaster risk management programmes and processes. They outline...
The following topics will be detailed in the checklist: 1. Elements relating to the geographic location of the health facility to be evaluated (mark with an X where applicable). 2. Structural...
These guidelines aim at presenting a framework that an administrator can rely on to make effective decisions in managing the health sector’s activities to reduce the consequences of disasters.
This document can also be found on the Official website of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) at https://iris.paho.org/
This document provides...
This document can also be found on the Official website of Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) at https://www.rcpath.org/
This infographic provides...
This Field Manual for First Responders presents simple recommendations for non-specialists to manage the recovery, basic identification, storage and disposal of dead bodies following disasters. It...
This manual provides the technical information that will support the correct approach to handling dead bodies, taking into account the following principles:
When death is the result of a...
This publication echoes the 1981 Emergency Health Management after Natural Disaster (Scientific Publication No. 407), but it is a whole new book, with a fresh organization and much new content. It...