06/18/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Direct Relief. Published: 6/18/2019. This report discusses how hurricane disasters can cause threats to public health that turn into their own calamities, and can continue for months or even years after the storm has passed. In the wake of a flooding disaster, when sanitation is compromised, displaced people are crowded together, and there’s an abundance of standing water, which allows disease to flourish. The report details endemic diseases, predatory infections, non-communicable diseases, and behavioral health issues associated with hurricane disasters. (Text)
06/18/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 6/18/2019. Following the first update of the risk assessment about the dengue outbreak in Réunion, France, published on July 5, 2018, this 14-page second update has been triggered by the significant size of the outbreak and its expected duration, which is anticipated to overlap with high vector activity in the southern European Union (EU). The likelihood of onward transmission of dengue in the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) is associated with the probability of importation of the virus by viraemic travelers into receptive areas, defined as locations with established and active competent vectors. (PDF)
06/17/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: University of Colorado at Boulder, Natural Hazards Center. Published: 6/17/2019. This report, part of the Children and Disasters Special Collection, discusses a lesson worth considering for any community confronted with a collective trauma: by putting children first, it may be possible to accelerate everyone’s recovery. Reviewing past disasters and emergencies, it explains how children are a bellwether of a community’s recovery—if they’ve recovered, it is likely that many of the formal and informal systems in a community have recovered as well. (Text)
06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. Published: 6/2019. This Web page provides seven key concepts and 19 sources of information about the unchecked spread of potentially vaccine-preventable diseases in conflict humanitarian emergencies. Concepts include that children living in humanitarian crisis settings can be protected from the disproportionately high burden of vaccine-preventable diseases; and sustaining immunization activities and preventing vaccine-preventable outbreaks during conflict can be achieved through preemptive preparedness measures and concerted programmatic and financial support from governments and partners. (Text)
06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN). Published: 6/2019. Cameroon is host to significant numbers of refugees and displaced populations; this situation heightens chronic food and nutrition insecurity, and can overwhelm services. This report discusses a new prevention-oriented program started in 2016 that uses the blanket supplementary feeding program as an operational platform to deliver multiple services, including household food assistance, specialized nutritious food, social and behavior change communication, and health and water, sanitation, and hygiene services. (Text)
06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R). Published: 6/2019. This 25-page roadmap aims to accelerate effective data sharing by highlighting measures GloPID-R research funders can take to improve research data sharing by their grantees and to advocate for increased research and public health data sharing more widely. It details how enhanced public health and research data sharing during public health emergencies can result in significant public health benefit. (PDF)
05/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Healthcare Ready. Published: 5/2019. This six-page report details how communities built partnerships to provide needed medicines and medical supplies during the 2017 hurricane season, when three storms – Harvey, Irma, and Maria – sequentially impacted communities in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and Puerto Rico. Because of these efforts, patients and families in need of support, relief, and care in the midst and wake of the hurricanes had greater access to medical care that can be otherwise challenging to receive during the uncertainty of a natural disaster. (PDF)
05/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Published: 5/2019. This 18-page fact sheet provides information about family centered treatment, which provides a holistic approach with families in their homes. It emphasizes all areas of family functioning relevant to treatment needs. The approach is for children of all ages; for youth experiencing complex trauma; neglect; emotional, physical, and sexual abuse; abandonment, loss, and intimate partner violence; and multiple placements, including adoption, disruption, and communities exposed to violence. (PDF)
05/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). Published: 5/2019. This nine-page document is a self-rating tool that walks users through each of the competencies in Using the Secondary Traumatic Stress Core Competencies in Trauma-Informed Supervision. It allows users to rate themselves in each of the competency areas, and offers information on which competencies the user has confidence in, needs more training in, or are not a part of his/her skill set. (PDF)
05/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Published: 5/2019. Environmental Protection Agency researchers are integrating available chemical information, including physicochemical properties, environmental fate and transport, exposure, usage, in vivo toxicity, and in vitro bioassay, into this Computational Toxicology (CompTox) Chemicals Dashboard to help decision-makers and scientists quickly and efficiently evaluate thousands of chemicals. It can be searched by chemical identifiers, consumer product categories, and assays/genes associated with high-throughput screening data. (Text)
03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: Wellcome Trust. Published: 3/2019. Based on a workshop held in December 2018, this 35-page report provides six case studies that explore data sharing practices during a range of infectious disease outbreaks of varying severity, geographical exposure, and public health impact, and where medical countermeasures were or were not available. The case studies identified multiple obstacles to and enablers of data sharing in public health emergencies. (PDF)
02/01/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 2/2019. This 12-page report summarizes a meeting held on December 10-11, 2018, in Oslo, Norway, to enable stakeholders to discuss antibiotic shortages and availability, including the magnitude of supply instability, causes, and possible actions to create predictable supply. Key issues addressed included antibiotic demand forecasting; the economic and societal impact of shortages; and the potential benefit in a diversity of prescribing, which may also slow the development of antibiotic resistance. (PDF)
01/01/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 1/2019. This two-page fact sheet provides information about how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Children’s Preparedness Unit and its partners work to protect children before and during an emergency. It also discusses how states and communities can include children’s health needs in emergency planning, and why protecting children is key to a successful emergency response. (PDF)
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