08/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 22-page tip sheet from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) highlights best practices and issues related to planning for, activating, and operating hospital or healthcare facility Family Information Centers (FIC)/Family Support Centers (FSC), in collaboration with Family Reception Centers (FRC) and Family Assistance Centers (FAC). It provides general considerations for hospital and other community healthcare response providers during planning, response, and recovery efforts, and a list of resources.
08/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 376-page guide is designed to help local public health departments integrate climate change and health equity into practice. It includes overviews of climate science, health impacts of climate change, and how health equity fits into the equation. It discusses what local health departments can do to include climate change and health equity into assessment and surveillance, intersectoral collaboration, community engagement and education, climate and health communications, and preparedness.
08/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This web page discusses how climate change poses a threat to public health, including mental health. Those with mental health disorders are disproportionately impacted by the consequences of climate change. Specific topics are Who Is Affected by Climate Change, and Longer-Term and Interconnected Effects. Lists of links to other resources are provided.
08/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 34-page case study, while limited in its ability to interact with all stakeholders, has identified entry points within the operational divisions of Ghana Health Services as potential areas where the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) policy platform may seek to embed AMR activities. This Ghana case study was commissioned by the World Health Organization AMR Secretariat to assist teams working on AMR to explore the scope to scale up delivery of AMR activities through existing programs and projects and those that are under development.
08/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 17-page publication was developed by the FBI Office for Victim Assistance and the National Transportation Safety Board Transportation Disaster Assistance Division for local and state agencies involved in the response to mass fatality events. It provides an overview of the components of the family assistance process and family assistance center operations as they relate to transportation and criminal incidents.
08/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This web page provides information and materials from the 2018 annual meeting of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, which included briefings on the health content of the 2018 National Climate Assessment and the Lancet Countdown reports, presentations on a range of solutions that include pricing carbon, accelerating the transition to clean energy, and greening the health sector.
08/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT
The most significant finding of this 54-page case study for integrating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) into existing programs and mobilizing resources for funding in Nigeria is that most of the AMR activities within the Nigerian National Action Plan can already be incorporated within existing programs of the Federal Ministry of Health, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and their agencies or institutes. The case study was commissioned by the World Health Organization AMR Secretariat to assist teams working on AMR to explore the scope to scale up delivery of AMR activities through existing programs and projects and those that are under development.
08/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This web page provides links to anthrax case definitions from 2018, 2010, 1996, and 1990, and a condition-related link to the anthrax home page
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