08/14/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 8/14/2019. This 25-minute video features live responses from an expert to questions about dengue, which is transmitted through Aedes aegypti and Aedes Albopictus mosquitoes, also known as Asian tiger mosquitoes. These are the same mosquitoes that transmit chikungunya, yellow fever, and Zika. Topics include identifying the warning signs and symptoms of severe dengue, and complications caused by dengue. (Video or Multimedia)
08/13/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Published: 8/13/2019. This 176-page guide provides a step-by-step explanation of how to use the Safe Hospitals Checklist, and how the evaluation can be used to obtain a rating of the structural and nonstructural safety, and the emergency and disaster management capacity, of a hospital. The results of the evaluation enable a hospital’s own safety index to be calculated. The Hospital Safety Index occupies a central place in local, national, and global efforts to improve the functioning of hospitals in emergencies and disasters. (PDF)
08/13/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Published: 8/13/2019. This 16-page document provides a voluntary tool to be used by health sector authorities to measure progress in emergency and disaster preparedness with a multi-hazard approach and in line with the World Health Organization (WHO)'s Strategic Framework for Emergency Preparedness. Its aim is to estimate the national or sub-national health preparedness capacity to deal with natural, anthropic, and health events (epidemics) that generate emergencies and disasters, and the capacity of the health sector to recover early from the effects of these events. (PDF)
07/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Army Borden Institute. Published: 7/2019. This book is a first-of-its-kind textbook that compiles and codifies the knowledge required of military health professionals to support their unit commanders, protect the health of the force, and deliver high-quality medical care to those who go into harm’s way. While anyone with an interest in military medicine can learn from this textbook, it is intended for the new medical officer from any service in any medical, surgical, dental, nursing, administrative, veterinary, or other discipline. Chapter topics include Environmental Extremes: Heat and Cold; Mass Casualty Preparedness and Response; and Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive Threats. (PDF)
04/29/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 4/29/2019. This web page summarizes the novel influenza A viruses that are currently most concerning to public health officials. Virus types include A H5 viruses, A H7 viruses, A H9 viruses, and swine influenza/variant influenza A viruses. The page also links to a tool that assesses the potential pandemic risk posed by novel influenza A viruses. (Text)
04/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Published: 4/2019. The goals of this 26-page Guidance Note are to support health and emergency management practitioners to improve their work in health disaster risk management among indigenous peoples; improve the impact of disaster risk management policies and programs concerning indigenous peoples; and gain, retain, and integrate the local knowledge and wisdom of indigenous peoples in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disaster situations. (PDF)
01/01/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: American Medical Association (AMA). Published: 2019. In the context of infectious disease, physicians may use quarantine and isolation to reduce the transmission of disease and protect the health of the public. This web page details the Code of Medical Ethics Opinion 8.4, which explains the steps physicians should take when using quarantine and isolation as public health interventions in situations of epidemic disease, and what the ethical responsibilities of the medical profession are. (Text)
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