miércoles, 4 de diciembre de 2019

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Information and Emergency Response

11/29/2019 12:00 AM EST


Source: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Published: 11/29/2019. This 15-page report and associated briefing notes consolidate the learning from a research project to address some of the gaps in evidence and institutional accountability systems. It articulates the challenges that International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement members experience in institutionalizing a community-led approach. The report uses this evidence to substantiate assumptions about the value and impact of community engagement and participation. Brief 1 uses Ebola as an example. (PDF)
11/28/2019 12:00 AM EST


Source: Enhancing Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance (ELRHA). Published: 11/28/2019. The aim of this 35-page commissioned review was to gain an understanding of the opportunities and challenges to fair, equitable, and effective partnerships working in academic-humanitarian research collaborations. Review findings show that there are many opportunities and challenges associated with effective humanitarian research partnering, and that fair and equitable partnerships do not materialize without consciousness and intent. (PDF)
11/21/2019 12:00 AM EST


Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division (HMD). Published: 11/21/2019. This resource provides information, materials, and videos from a workshop held on November 21-22, 2019, to explore how crisis standards of care have been incorporated into planning and implemented at the local, state, and federal levels. Participants reviewed shifts in planning assumptions over the last 10 years (e.g., new technology, protocols); discussed the resolved and existing legal and ethical implications of crisis standards of care; and considered priorities for the next 10 years of crisis standards of care development and implementation. (Video or Multimedia)
11/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT


Source: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Published: 11/2019. This 71-page report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security urges the U.S. government to replace the cycle of crisis and complacency that has long plagued health security preparedness with a doctrine of continuous prevention, protection, and resilience. It advances this doctrine in the face of a growing number and variety of health security threats—naturally occurring, accidental, and deliberate. (PDF)
09/25/2019 12:00 AM EDT


Source: North Carolina State University. Published: 9/25/2019. This 52-minute webinar discusses the many southeastern cities that are particularly vulnerable to climate change compared to cities in other regions, with expected impacts to infrastructure and human health. The vibrancy and viability of these metropolitan areas, including the people and critical regional resources located in them, are increasingly at risk due to heat, flooding, and vector-borne disease brought about by a changing climate. The natural climate of the Southeast provides a conducive atmosphere for health issues, including the spread of disease. (Video or Multimedia)
02/01/2019 12:00 AM EST


Source: Save the Children International. Published: 2/2019. This five-page document outlines some potential safeguarding risks of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs, and provides suggestions on how to manage them to ensure children are as safe as possible. It discusses how improperly built and/or poorly maintained WASH facilities (such as latrines) have contributed to child fatalities and serious injuries in the past, as have death and injuries caused by water trucks, especially in crowded refugee camps. (PDF)

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