sábado, 16 de noviembre de 2019

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Information and Emergency Response



11/15/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 11/15/2019. This Topic Collection from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange), updated in November 2019, provides resources that highlight select standards, guidance, regulation, accreditation programs, and tools that can help healthcare emergency preparedness professionals create new, or bolster the foundation of, existing programs and plans. Resources are categorized in topics that include Education and Training; Evaluation; Event-Specific Lessons Learned; Guidance/Guidelines; Plans, Tools, and Templates; Program Development; and Standards and Regulations. (Text)
11/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 11/2019. One important aspect of preparedness for vector-borne diseases is the surveillance of the introduction, establishment, and spread of the main disease vectors. This 29-page document describes a methodology to estimate the vector distribution status for those nomenclature of units for territorial statistics, level 3 (NUTS3) units for which observations are not yet available. These estimates are produced with spatial modeling techniques, using the currently available distributions to calibrate the modeling process. (PDF)
11/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Published: 11/2019. The purpose of this 155-page report is to inform the proposed Checklist on Law and Disaster Preparedness and Response, by identifying the key issues that should be included and providing detailed recommendations about how to develop law and policy to address those issues. It contains 10 thematic chapters, each of which addresses a cluster of related issues in disaster preparedness and response, discusses the issues in depth, and analyzes the extent to which those issues are already adequately addressed by domestic law in the sample countries. (PDF)
11/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Lancet Countdown. Published: 11/2019. This 11-page policy brief focuses on the connections between climate change and health in the United States, draws out the most nationally relevant findings, and highlights the key threats and opportunities climate change poses for health in the U.S. While no one is immune from the threat climate change poses, these health harms are disproportionately borne by vulnerable and marginalized populations, a theme explored in this brief. (PDF)
11/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Lancet Countdown. Published: 11/2019. This eight-page brief focuses on connections between climate change and health in the United Kingdom in 2019. It draws out some of the most relevant findings of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change 2019 report, and uses UK data to highlight specific threats and opportunities that climate change poses for the health of the UK population. (PDF)
10/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 10/2019. This 356-page book showcases good practices by which governments, non-state actors, and international and nongovernmental organizations can attempt to address the complexity of migration, by strengthening health system responsiveness to refugee and migrant health matters, and by coordinating and developing foreign policy solutions to improve health at the global, regional, country and local levels. From the public health perspective, population movement, including forced migration, is a complex phenomenon and is a high priority on the political and policy agenda of most World Health Organization Member States. (PDF)
10/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). Published: 10/2019. This 37-page paper outlines the research evidence regarding commonly experienced traumatic events and daily stressors for adult and child refugees and asylum-seekers, mental disorders experienced by adult and child refugees, and psychological and pharmacological interventions. It also discusses the role of culture in influencing mental health, and barriers to treatment following forcible displacement. Recommendations are also made across the areas of public health, immigration, settlement, and mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) policy, and clinical practice and research. (PDF)
08/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Pala Environmental Department (PED). Published: 8/2019. This training series provides steps, tools, templates, case studies, and other resources that seek to streamline the climate adaptation planning process and make it easier for tribal health and environmental professionals to understand and address human health exposures and impacts within tribal communities. Training is offered through a series of 10 webinars scheduled from August 6, 2019, through December 17, 2019. Webinars that have been held are Intro; Climate Change and Health 101; Changing Climate Exposures and Impacts; Wildfire and Drought; Storms and Flooding, and Melting Ice and Sea Level Rise; and Vulnerability Assessments. (Video or Multimedia)
02/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Pala Environmental Department (PED). Published: 2/2019. To determine the Pala Tribe of Mission Indians’ climate change vulnerability, this report summarizes a process that entailed review of literature, data, staff knowledge, and community observations to determine to what extent Pala may be exposed to various climate changes now and in the future. It lists the exposures that present the most significant and interrelated risks for Pala, the potential impacts resulting from such exposures, and the community characteristics that make Pala more sensitive or more adaptable to these impacts. (PDF)

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