Each year, dozens of communities around the world face natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and other emergencies. Scientists think that a worldwide influenza outbreak will happen sometime in the next decade. The purpose of this guide is to help local leaders and community organizers bring together... the community to help plan for disease outbreaks and other emergencies. This guide uses the lessons from communities that have already dealt with disease outbreaks and also uses other often-used tools to create discussion among community members and effectively garner their insight
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Malawi Integrated Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures for Providing HIV Services. 3rd edition 2016
This review of the IFRC support to the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society response to the 2012 cholera outbreak provides ideas and concepts to promote a more coherent and evidence based rationale on how to make more effective use of IFRC global assets to stop, control, mitigate and respond to cholera ep...idemics. No fit and healthy person should die from cholera – that should be the indicator of success.
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Medical Journal of Zambia, Volume 36 Number 4 (2009)
Guidance Brief
Selected findings from ECDC and EMCDDA scientific guidance, 2018
PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0172392 February 16, 2017
The devastating impacts of the 2015–16 El Niño will be felt well into 2017. This crisis was predicted, yet overall, the response has been too little too late. The looming La Niña event may further hit communities that are already deeply vulnerable. To end this cycle of failure, there is an urgen...t need for humanitarian action where the situation is already dire, to prepare for La Niña later this year, to commit to comprehensive new measures to build communities’ resilience, and to mobilize global action to address climate change which is creating a ‘new normal’ of higher temperatures, drought and unpredictable growing seasons.
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Данное руководство описывает вмешательство низкой интенсивности под названием «Управление проблемами плюс» (УП+) – для взрослого населения в состоянии дистресса..., вызванного неблагоприятной ситуацией в общине. Определенные элементы КПТ были изменены для применения в общинах с ограниченным количеством специалистов. С целью максимально эффективного использования вмешательство разработано таким образом, чтобы оно могло помогать лицам, страдающим от депрессии, тревоги и стресса, независимо от того, были ли данные проблемы вызваны неблагоприятной ситуацией или нет. Вмешательство можно применять для улучшения систем охраны психического здоровья и психосоциального благополучия независимо от степени тяжести проблем.
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