08/06/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 229-page handbook fills the critical need for authoritative technical information on chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) respiratory protection devices (RPDs). The information presented will assist any user of CBRN respirators to improve selection, use, and maintenance, but it is particularly useful to those individuals responsible for administering respirator protection programs or developing training programs. The handbook is intended for organizations that use CBRN respirators in emergency response applications (e.g., fire service, law enforcement, emergency medical services, and corrections officers).
08/06/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 24-page toolkit aims to support the understanding and implementation of integrated mental health programs in humanitarian settings. It provides a framework for essential steps and components, with associated key guidance and resources, that strengthen the integration process, and is primarily intended for implementing agencies, but may also be useful for donors and government actors.
08/06/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This three-page document from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) provides guidance to medical personnel and first responders to include information on contingency medical countermeasures for treating nerve agent-exposed patients in the case that standard medical countermeasures are in short supply. It includes flow charts for both adult and pediatric patient nerve agent medical countermeasure treatment protocols.
08/06/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 11-page national policy brief, developed in partnership with Umea University and the Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation, looks at some of the Lancet Countdown’s indicators for health and climate change in the context of Sweden – a high-income country with well-established infrastructure and equal access to health care for all. It provides four recommendations specific to Sweden.
08/06/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 10-page national policy brief, developed by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, complements the 2017 Lancet Countdown paper on health and climate change, and draws out national data and policy implications for select indicators for Australia. It details four recommendations specific to Australia.
08/06/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 15-page national policy brief, developed in partnership with Tsinghua University, provides a unique national analysis and four policy recommendations for health and climate change for China. It highlights key climate change impacts on health in China, national response measures to climate change and health impacts, and the associated challenges and opportunities in China.
08/06/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 10-page national policy brief, developed in partnership with the American Public Health Association, draws out some of the most nationally-relevant findings of the 2017 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change paper, and highlights some of the key threats and opportunities climate change poses for the health of U.S. citizens. The discussion of findings includes a case study of Hurricane Harvey. The report also provides provides six recommendations specific to the United States.
08/06/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 18-page briefing on health and climate change has been developed jointly with the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), and focuses on three indicators from the 2017 Lancet Countdown report on health and climate change that are particularly relevant to the European Union (EU): Exposure to air pollution in European cities, coal phase-out in the EU, and exposure to heatwaves in the EU. It provides three recommendations specific to the EU.
08/06/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 25-page national policy brief, developed in partnership with the Canadian Public Health Association, details how Canada can best tackle climate change and its impacts on health, and represents a partial summary of progress on addressing climate-health issues in Canada. It provides seven recommendations specific to Canada.
08/06/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This seven-page annual epidemiology report is based on data for 2016 retrieved from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) on February 21, 2018. In 2016, 29 European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) Member States (27 EU Member States plus Iceland and Norway) reported brucellosis data, all of them with national coverage. During that year, 534 confirmed brucellosis cases were reported in the EU/EEA.
08/03/2018 12:00 AM EDT
This 104-page report summarizes the presentations and discussions from a workshop held on March 20-21, 2018, to identify and understand approaches to aligning health care system incentives with the American public’s need for a health care system that is prepared to manage acutely ill and injured patients during a disaster, public health emergency, or other mass casualty event. Participants discussed interest among health care institutions in collaborating with the public and private sectors to strengthen capacity to respond to disasters and public health emergencies.
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