
COPING WITH NATURAL DISASTERS: THE ROLE OF LOCAL HEALTH PERSONNEL AND THE COMMUNITY
( By A Working Guide (WHO - OMS, 1989) )
Index
( By A Working Guide (WHO - OMS, 1989) )
Index
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction. An active role for communities and their health personnel
- Introduction. An active role for communities and their health personnel
- PART I. The disaster
- Chapter 1. Community rescue operations
Fear
- Chapter 1.Panic
- Chapter 1.Rescue operations
- Chapter 1.Reception at the health centre or hospital
- Chapter 2. The tasks of the local health personnel
Organizing the health centre or hospital to meet the emergency
- Chapter 2.Triage
- Chapter 2.Emergency care
- PART II. The aftermath
- Chapter 3. Action by the community
The coordination committee
- Chapter 3.Assessment of requirements
- Chapter 3.Outside assistance
- Chapter 3.Coordination of groups from outside
- Chapter 3.Family groupings
- Chapter 3.Temporary shelter and sanitation
- Displaced persons
- Chapter 3.Monitoring food supplies
- Chapter 3.Food distribution
- Chapter 3.Dealing with the dead
- Chapter 3.Dealing with animals
- Chapter 3.Post-disaster development
- Chapter 4. Action by the local health personnel
Post-disaster health problems and the organization of the local health personnel
- Chapter 4.Monitoring the community’s health status
- Chapter 4.Vaccinations
- Chapter 4.Nutrition
- Chapter 4.Health education and sanitation
- Chapter 4.Mental health
- Chapter 4.Vulnerable groups
- Chapter 4.Periodic reports by the local health personnel
- PART III. Preventing and alleviating the consequences of disasters
- Chapter 5. Action by the community
Analysis of past experience
- Chapter 5.Information on disasters
- Chapter 5.Some information on natural disasters
- Chapter 5.Knowledge of the risks and the resources
- Chapter 5.Evacuation of the population
- Chapter 5.Twinning
- Chapter 5.Exercises and activities to promote community preparedness
- Chapter 5.Basic education
- Chapter 6. Action by the local health personnel
Essential professional qualities of local health personnel for coping with disasters
- Chapter 6.Improving certain professional skills
- Chapter 6.Preparation of the health centre or hospital
- Chapter 6.The training of voluntary health workers
- Chapter 6.Preparedness activities for the population
- Annex 1. Diseases to be monitored when people are housed in temporary shelters
- Annex 2. Specimen record card for use by person in charge of family grouping in preparing health report in collaboration with local health personnel
- Annex 3. Nutrition Recommended daily energy and protein intakes for healthy individuals1
- Annex 3.Weight-for-height1
- Annex 3.Arm-circumference-for-height, young children (both sexes)1, 2
- Annex 3.Indicators of likely need for a supplementary feeding programme (SFP)1
- Annex 4. What to do in an earthquake
- Annex 5. Mercalli scale of earthquake intensities (MS)1
- Annex 6. Community risk maps
- Annex 7. The signs of danger in disaster-damaged buildings
- Annex 8. Resource maps
- Annex 9. Medical equipment of the health centre or hospital for coping with a disaster
- Annex 10. Outline schedules for self-evaluation in the event of disaster
- Annex 11. The League of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (LORCS)
- Annex 12. A short reading list for local health personnel1