This brief guidance note seeks to provide advice on protecting and supporting the mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in Europe. It describes key principles and appropriate interventions to guide all tho...se who are designing and organizing emergency services and/or providing direct assistance to the affected people
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Abduction of aid workers has risen sharply in particular contexts in the past decade. Abduction is a “unique form of critical incident”, characterised by its ongoing, “live” nature, often extended duration, the pressure of decision-making and uncertainty. This EISF ...o-highlight medbox">Briefing Paper explores the dimensions of effective, proactive abduction and kidnapping response mechanisms. It complements the EISF Briefing Paper Crisis Management of Critical Incidents, released April 2010, that looks at crisis response plans as a whole.
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This EISF Briefing Paper seeks to outline the requirements of crisis management structures, providing a general guideline of crisis management planning, Crisis Management Teams (CMTs) and post-crisis follow-up. It is followed by the May 2010 EISF <...span class="attribute-to-highlight medbox">Briefing Paper, Abduction Management, that will focus on the management of abductions and kidnappings, a particular form of crisis requiring an especially tailoured response. The two papers seek to act as tools by which agencies can review and strengthen their crisis management mechanisms, so ensuring effective responses to critical incidents.
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Key populations brief.
Краткое руководство
Key population brief.
Краткое руководство.
Guidance Brief
Selected findings from ECDC and EMCDDA scientific guidance, 2018
This brief document compiles existing material related to mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for the COVID-19 crisis, as well as other resources that can be applicable to the context. Documents are divided into different sections, based ...on the ‘’spaces of new vulnerability” inherent to some IOM programmes although many of them are applicable to other areas. They cover both mainstreaming of MHPSS and specific actions.
MHPSS managers will also find guidance on how to address the less technical and more managerial and programmatic issues related with the pandemic, including programme redefinition, surge capacity and how to manage demands to provide staff support to colleagues in the same missions
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MEDBOX Issue Brief no. 7, Dec. 2020
Die Impfung gegen die Ausbreitung des SARS-CoV-2-Virus stellt einen Meilenstein in der Bekämpfung der Pandemie dar. Für den Erfolg der Impfung unabdingbar ist eine gute Kommunikation und Aufklärung der Bevölk...erung. Im Folgenden sind einige Informationen zur Impfstrategie, Durchführung der Impfung, ethische Überlegungen, sowie Aufklärungsmaterialien in deutscher und englischer Sprache aufgelistet
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Briefing Note no. 80 November 2015
Issue Brief No. 29:
Planetary Health is an interdisciplinary academic collective of many scientific disciplines. In addition to the fields of
environmental and social sciences, that of human health is one of many.
Because of the many disciplines... involved in this topic and the large number of resources available, we would like to
share with you in this Issue Brief the most important documents related to Planetary Health. All of these
documents and many more can be found in the Planetary Health Toolbox
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This brief document aims to provide a framework for WHO assistance in this area.
WHO clinical and policy guidelines
Key populations brief
Accessed 2017
Key populations brief
Accessed 2017
СЕЛЬСКОЕ НАСЕЛЕНИЕ
ОСНОВНЫЕ ЗАТРОНУТЫЕ ГРУППЫ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ. КРАТКОЕ РУКОВОДСТВО.