Natural disasters often increase morbidity and mortality rates. Taking appropriate measures to maintain environmental health helps to reduce or eliminate the risks of preventable disease and death. Such measures contribute not only to the health of individuals in and near disaster-stricken areas, bu...t they also contribute to decreasing the high costs of providing emergency health services in the aftermath of disaster.
This document is divided into several parts. The first section primarily addresses the effects of natural disasters on environmental health conditions and services. In the second section, environmental health measures are described that should be undertaken in each of three time frames: the predisaster, disaster, and postdisaster periods.
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Lessons learned from an M&E task-shifting initiative in Botswana
PLoS Med 10(8): e1001501. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001501
“towards quality health and social welfare services”
A supplement to The State of the World’s Children Report 2009
Made under Section 5 (c) of the Tanzania Food, Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 2003 | Second Edition
This section provides general information on HCW and key elements of management procedures that are essential to know before developing a HCWM plan.