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 Health Concerns in Disaster Relief
 
     
 
This is a preliminary list of important references.  SATELLIFE will continue to update this list for health care and disaster workers.  29 Dec 2004

 

Treatment Guidelines

 

Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever

http://www.whoban.org/communicable_dis_dengue.html
 

Malaria

http://www.whoban.org/communicable_dis_malaria.html
 

Cholera

http://www.doh.gov.za/issues/cholera/guidelines.html
  Diarrhoeal Disease http://www.who.int/topics/cholera/publications/en/critical_steps_en.pdf
  Measles
http://www.who.int/emc-documents/measles/docs/whocdscsrisr991.pdf

 

Articles/Manuals Available on-line

 

The Sphere Project: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, Minimum Standards in Health Services; Minimum Standards in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene. 2004 Revised Edition

http://www.sphereproject.org/handbook/index.htm

 

 
 

WHO. Technical Guidelines for Health Action in Crises. http://www.who.int/hac/techguidance/en// 

- Public Health Topics. http://www.who.int/hac/techguidance/pht/en/

 

 
 

Amer Jabry,  Helping Children in Disasters. Plan International, UK.   http://www.plan-uk.org/action/childrenindisasters/

 

 
 

WHO. Flooding and communicable diseases fact sheet.

http://www.who.int/hac/techguidance/ems/flood_cds/en/print.html

 

 
 

Gary J. Smith. Floods: An environmental health practitioner's emergency management guide. National Environmental Health Forum Monographs. Counter Disaster Series No. 1, 1999.

http://150.101.16.49/pehs/publications/monograph-floods.pdf

 

 
 

Morgan O. Infectious disease risks from dead bodies following natural disasters.

Rev Panam Salud Publica. 2004;15(5): 307–12.

http://publications.paho.org/english/dead_bodies.pdf

 

 
 

David Werner. Where there is no doctor

http://www.healthwrights.org/books/WTINDonline.htm

 

 
 

WHO (1998), The New Emergency Health Kit 1998. World Health

Organisation. Geneva.

http://www.who.int/medicines/library/par/new-emergency-health-kit/nehk98_en.pdf

 

 
 

UNHCR/WHO (1996), Guidelines for Drug Donations. World Health

Organisation and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Geneva.

http://www.who.int/medicines/library/par/who-edm-par-1999-4/who-edm-par-99-4.pdf

 

 
 

WHO/PAHO (2001), Health Library for Disasters (CD-ROM). World

Health Organisation/Pan-American Health Organization. Geneva.

http://www.paho.org/English/DD/PED/about-vdl.htm

 

 
 

WHO (2002), Guidelines for the Collection of Clinical Specimens

During Field Investigation of Outbreaks. World Health Organisation.

Geneva.

http://www.who.int/emc-documents/surveillance/docs/whocdscsredc2004.pdf

 

 
 

UNHCR (1999), Handbook for Emergencies. Second Edition.

UNHCR. Geneva. http://www.unhcr.ch/

http://www.aidworkers.net/resources/unhcr-handbook.html

 

 
 

Lacarin, CJ and Reed, RA (1999), Emergency Vector Control Using

Chemicals. WEDEC, Loughborough, UK.

http://wedc.lboro.ac.uk/publications/pdfs/evc/evc-2nd%20ed.pdf

 

 
 

Rollback Malaria (RBM) Complex Emergencies Network.

Outline Strategy For Malaria Control In Complex Emergencies

http://www.doh.gov.za/issues/malaria/red_reference/epidemics/epi5.pdf