Filter
1035
Filtered Results: 1035
Text search:
hazard
approach
Featured
Recommendations
115
New Publications
311
Language
Document type
No document type
531
Studies & Reports
175
Guidelines
138
Manuals
92
Strategic & Response Plan
46
Training Material
28
Fact sheets
13
Situation Updates
8
Brochures
2
Resource Platforms
2
Countries / Regions
Myanmar / Burma
42
Global
42
India
40
Nepal
29
Sierra Leone
24
Kenya
22
Nigeria
21
Liberia
19
Africa
16
Uganda
15
Ethiopia
14
Ghana
12
Tanzania
12
Bangladesh
12
Philippines
11
South Africa
11
Syria
10
USA
9
Haiti
9
Latin America and the Carribbean
9
Guinea
8
South–East Asia Region
8
Western and Central Europe
8
Asia
8
Congo, Democratic Republic of
7
Rwanda
7
Indonesia
7
Malawi
7
Western Pacific Region
7
Zimbabwe
6
Zambia
6
South Sudan
5
Lesotho
5
West and Central Africa
5
Senegal
4
Pakistan
4
Mozambique
4
Namibia
4
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
4
Burkina Faso
3
Mali
3
Côte d’Ivoire / Ivory Coast
3
Jordan
3
Eswatini/ Swaziland
3
Ukraine
3
East and Southern Africa
3
Middle East and North Africa
3
Laos
3
Vietnam
3
Cameroon
2
Niger
2
Germany
2
Chad
2
Cambodia
2
China
2
Sudan
2
Botswana
2
Chile
2
Eastern Europe
2
Afghanistan
1
Lebanon
1
Egypt
1
Thailand
1
Gambia
1
Singapore
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Argentina
1
Peru
1
Colombia
1
Honduras
1
El Salvador
1
Angola
1
Yemen
1
Paraguay
1
Bhutan
1
Palestine
1
Canada
1
Timor Leste/ East Timor
1
Russia
1
Denmark
1
Maldives
1
Mauritius
1
Authors & Publishers
Publication Years
Category
Countries
299
Key Resources
163
Public Health
74
Clinical Guidelines
59
Women & Child Health
24
Capacity Building
17
Pharmacy & Technologies
14
Annual Report MEDBOX
1
Toolboxes
Planetary Health
110
Rapid Response
93
Natural Hazards
81
COVID-19
71
Ebola
48
Specific Hazards
43
Conflict
40
AMR
37
Disability
33
Mental Health
32
HIV
27
Global Health Education
27
TB
26
Caregiver
24
Pharmacy
24
Refugee
15
NTDs
12
NCDs
12
Zika
6
Health Financing Toolbox
6
Cholera
3
Polio
3
Typhoon
2
South Sudan
1
Social Ethics
1
The ERP approach seeks to improve effectiveness by reducing both time and effort, enhancing predictability through establishing predefined roles, responsibilities and coordination mechanisms. The Emergency Response Preparedness Plan (ERPP) has four ...
A people-centred approach to make communities safer
Recommendations for a public health approach
HIV/AIDS Programme
This handbook follows a comprehensive approach to health system strengthening at borders in order to support IHR national focal points and other national agencies in developing and implementing evidence-based action plans for IHR capacity developmen...
This short guide highlights the fundamentally similar approach to quality and accountability underlying both sets of standards and describes in some detail the similarities and differences between them. It compares the respective structures of the s...
Water safety plan: rural water supply systems including climate considerations [template]
recommended
This water safety plan (WSP) template was developed to support the integration of climate risks into the WSP approach in rural areas of the United Rep. of Tanzania. Examples are presented on how to complete the template, and the information should b...
Technical Note
Recently, the approach to hazardous events has undergone a considerable shift, away from reactive activities focused on managing and responding to events and towards a more proactive process of emergency and disaster risk management ...
20 February 2013
Update on 2004 Background Paper (Written by Saloni Tanna)
Priority Medicines for Europe and the World "A Public Health Approach to Innovation"
This manual has been developed to guide rapid risk assessment of acute public health risks from any type of hazard in response to requests from Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO). The manual is aimed primarily at national departmen...
The Strategic Tool for Assessing Risks (STAR) offers a comprehensive, easy-to-use toolkit and approach to enable national and subnational governments to rapidly conduct a strategic and evidence-based assessment of public health risks for planning an...
This policy brief outlines core elements that Member States are encouraged to a) develop an integrated approach to respiratory pathogen pandemic preparedness planning and b) enhance national and sub-national functional capacities for preparedness. I...
Snakebite is an acute life threatening time limiting medical emergency. It is a preventable public
health hazard often faced by rural population in tropical and subtropical countries with heavy
rainfall and humid climate.
This Urban Flood Risk Handbook: Assessing Risk and Identifying Interventions is a roadmap for conducting an urban flood risk assessment in any city in the world. It includes practical guidance for a flood risk assessment project, covering the key hazard...
The current effort on fighting COVID-19 cannot conceal the fact that climatic and geological hazards affect Latin-America and the Caribbean every year. At a time when countries of the region are actively responding to the pandemic, they also need to prepare for and implement actions to mitigate the ...
Version 2 (unedited). The Basic Needs Analysis (BNA) is a multi-sector needs analysis approach that can be applied in both sudden onset and protracted emergencies. The methodology comprises the Guidance (this document) presenting the conceptual BNA ...
This Technical Brief focuses on appraising and prioritising options for climate resilience with a view to informing water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) programme and project design.
This Technical Brief:
- provides a simple scorecard/checklist ... to use as a starting point for appraising and prioritising options, and as an awareness-raising activity - covers all aspects of WASH
- has a predominantly rural focus, to align with the rest of the Strategic Framework and Technical Briefs
- focuses on current and near future options over the next 15–20 years, which fits in with WASH programming timescales and development
- includes WASH examples to show how the approach can be applied.
This Technical Brief:
- provides a simple scorecard/checklist ... to use as a starting point for appraising and prioritising options, and as an awareness-raising activity - covers all aspects of WASH
- has a predominantly rural focus, to align with the rest of the Strategic Framework and Technical Briefs
- focuses on current and near future options over the next 15–20 years, which fits in with WASH programming timescales and development
- includes WASH examples to show how the approach can be applied.
The training is targeted at all professionals involved in the management of drinking-water safety. The handbook is divided into three parts:
• Part 1 – Overview of the training approach, training structure and mode of training assessment...
• Part 1 – Overview of the training approach, training structure and mode of training assessment
This study aims to analyze national and international stakeholders and their initiatives in Early Warning Systems in Myanmar, to identify priority gaps that need to be addressed by all stakeholders. It is presented as a first step towards supporting GoUM in information-gathering under the Myanmar Ac...
The Myanmar National Framework seeks to achieve people-centered, inclusive, and sustainable socioeconomic development in the face of disasters triggered by natural hazards and climate change. The framework articulates a common understanding, proposes a coherent ..., and identifies potential opportunities for strengthening the resilience of communities in Myanmar.
This guidance has been developed in line with the WHO corporate risk management framework, the WHO business continuity and contingency plans, as well as the Inter-Agency Emergency Response Preparedness Framework. It is based on a common organiza-tional app... and procedures for managing including emergency response across all hazards and at each level of the Organization. It relates WHO’s responsibilities (1) under the International Health Regulations (2005) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, and other international treaties; (2) as the United Nations’ lead agency for health and the health cluster; and (3) as a member of the United Nations or Humanitarian Country Teams
