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Older people1 have often been overlooked in disasters and conflicts, andtheir concerns have rarely been addressed by emergency programmesor planners. This analysis seeks to: (1) highlight factors...
Service Availability Mapping (SAM) in Uganda was conducted by Uganda's Ministry of Health(MoH) resource centre and the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2004. The goal wasto collect...
The Cairo based World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean published in 2007 theWHO e-Atlas of disaster risk for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Volume 1: Exposure...
The contamination of groundwater by arsenic in Bangladesh is the largest poisoning of a population in history, with millions of people exposed. This paper describes the history of the discovery of...
The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 (HFA) included thefollowing measure of commitment to and success of national riskreduction: Integrate disaster risk reduction planning into the health...
The report presents an integrated approach for emergency preparedness and response that is grounded in the WHO Active Ageing Policy Framework. This approach adopts a life course perspective that...
This Guide suggests how the Health Cluster lead agency, coordinator and partners can work together during a humanitarian crisis to achieve the aims of reducing avoidable mortality, morbidity and...
This document outlines the procedure that could be put in place for emergency sanitation immediately after a disaster.
This document suggests ways in which to provide clean water supplies and sanitation facilities in refugee camps, both immediate and long-term.
This technical note outlines some of the key activities in dealing with solid waste in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Solid waste refers here to all non-liquid wastes (e. g. rubbish or...