10/02/2018 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. Published: 7/2018. This 181-page guidance provides standardized methods to evaluate the Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) implemented in countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization (WHO), based on lessons learned from previous EWARN implementation and evaluations. EWARN was established to address the increased risk of communicable disease transmission during humanitarian emergencies, when national surveillance systems may be underperforming or non-functional. (PDF)
10/01/2018 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Harvard University, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Published: 9/21/2018. This 56-minute recording features a panel discussion of a study of storm-related mortality from Hurricane Maria, which estimated that there had been somewhere between 800 and 8,500 excess deaths in Puerto Rico related to the hurricane through the end of December 2017. Speakers discuss other estimates of hurricane-related deaths, the difficulty of obtaining official mortality data, and the hardships Puerto Ricans faced in the weeks and months after Maria. (Video or Multimedia)
10/01/2018 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 9/2018. This 116-page guide, the fourth in a series of World Health Organization (WHO) guidance documents on palliative care, describes the medical and moral necessity of integrating palliative care and pain relief into responses to humanitarian emergencies and crises of all types. It offers an expanded conception of palliative care based on the needs of people affected by humanitarian emergencies and crises, and proposes an Essential Package of Palliative Care for Humanitarian Emergencies and Crises. (PDF)
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