viernes, 14 de febrero de 2020

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Information and Emergency Response



02/12/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: U.S. Senate, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Published: 2/12/2020. The purpose of this two-hour, 13-minute Senate roundtable is to examine the response to pandemics like the 2019 novel coronavirus and ask what more the federal government could be doing to combat the outbreak of global infectious diseases. Witnesses discuss if the government has clear strategies and plans to combat these global diseases and pandemics, what lessons have been learned from previous responses, and if those issues have been addressed and resolved. (Video or Multimedia)
02/10/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 2/10/2020. This web page provides recommendations for ships about the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in these topics: Investigation Form: Explanation of Key Fields; Ship Sanitation Certificate Information; Definitions: Signs, Symptoms, and Conditions; Federal Regulations: Reporting Illness/Death; and Questions and Answers about Disinsection and Zika for the Shipping Industry and Partners. (Text)
02/05/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 2/5/2020. This web page provides interim recommendations for the commercial airline industry about the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) first identified in Wuhan, China. It also contains a situation summary, and recommendations for managing ill travelers onboard if novel coronavirus infection is suspected. (Text)
02/01/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 2/2020. This web page provides links to World Health Organization 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-10) technical guidance in these categories: Country Readiness; Patient Management; Risk Communication and Community Engagement; Surveillance and Case Definitions; Infection Prevention and Control; Disease Commodity Package; Laboratory Guidance; Early Investigations; and Reduction of Transmission from Animals to Humans. (Text)
01/31/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). Published: 1/31/2020. The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change is an international, multi-disciplinary collaboration that monitors the links between health and climate change through indicators highlighting the threats to health and their solutions. This one-hour webinar discusses how the recent findings of the 2019 report present a profound opportunity to improve health, and the steps needed to achieve a healthier future. (Video or Multimedia)
01/01/2020 12:00 AM EST

Source: World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Published: 1/2020. The Caribbean Action Plan on Health and Climate Change has four main strategic lines to better understand, prepare, and respond to the impacts of climate change on health, and build climate-resilient health systems and health-promoting mitigation actions: Empowerment, evidence, implementation, and resources. This 29-page document provides information about the methods of how each of those indicators should be measured and reported. (PDF)
12/18/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Published: 12/18/2019. Climate change and other environmental changes are among the main factors that have led to the emergence or reemergence of vector-borne diseases, including dengue and Zika. This 21-page publication offers key interventions to promote vector surveillance and control activities that emphasize environmental health, using interprogrammatic and intersectoral approaches. (PDF)
12/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Published: 12/2019. This 68-page document compiles the recommendations made by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to help professionals in charge of vector control programs in Latin America and the Caribbean at the national, subnational, and local level update their knowledge in order to make evidence-based decisions on the most appropriate control measures for each specific situation. It provides a situation analysis of vector-borne diseases in the Americas, and the context of vector control programs in the Americas. (PDF)
06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC). Published: 6/2019. The purpose of the study summarized in this 47-page report was to design, build, evaluate, and deploy a mobile emergency water treatment system capable of treating a wide variety of contaminated water following a natural or man-made disaster. Water may be contaminated with chemical, biological, or radionuclide contaminants. Therefore, an emergency water treatment system must be designed and built so the treatment train can be configured on-site to treat a broad spectrum of contaminants without utilizing other unnecessary and costly unit processes and without producing large amounts of contaminated wastes. (PDF)

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