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Technical Notes on Drinking-Water, Sanitation and Hygiene In Emergencies

Karen Vilholth WHO, WEDC, and IWMI (2011)

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Crisis Standards of Care: A Toolkit for Indicators and Triggers

Dan Hanfling, John Hick, and Clare Stroud Dan Hanfling, John Hick, and Clare Stroud (2013)

(You need free registration to download the book) Disasters and public health emergencies can stress health care systems to the breaking point and disrupt delivery of vital medical services. During such crises, hospitals and long-term care facilities may be without power; trained staff, ambulances,... more

Public Health Management of Disasters: The Pocket Guide

Linda Young Landesman, American Public Health Association (2006)

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Mass Casualty Management Systems. Strategies and guidelines for building health sector capacity

Health Action in Crisis Word Health Organization (2007)

Disaster planning - organization and administration. 2.Emergency medical services - methods. 3.Emergency medical services - organization and administration. 4.Emergencies. 5.Health policy. 6.Health facilities.7.Guidelines.

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Management and Control of Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers and other highly contagious viral pathogens

European Network for Diagnostics of Imported Viral Diseases (2001) C1

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Infection Control outside the VHF Treatment Facility

MSF (2008)

This section deals with implementing and improving infection control practices in hospitals, health centres and other health services in the outbreak area. It explains the need for, and implementation of, effective triage procedures, and basic requirements for infection control and supporting activi... more

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Epidemic diarrhoeal disease preparedness and response. Training and practice. Participant's manual
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World Health Organization WHO (2014) CC

Accessed November 2014

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The significance of death, funerals and the after-life in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia: Anthropological insights into infection and social resistance

Fairhead, J. (2014)

Draft, 8 October 2014

Joint technical support mission (WHO-CDC-INSPQJohns Hopkins University) for response preparedness Côte d’Ivoire country visit 27–31 October 2014

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Ebola- local beliefs and behaviour change

Grant, C. HEART (2014)

What are the local beliefs and practices around illnesses and death, the transmission of disease and spirituality, which affect decision-making (around health-seeking behaviour, caring for relatives and nature of burials) and can inform effective behaviour change interventions for preventing Ebola i... more

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Guidelines for the Management of Typhoid Fever
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Ministry of Health and Child Welfare,Zimbabwe; WHO; European Commission Humanitarian Aid (2011) C_WHO

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Guidelines for Health Institutions Established Upgrade Standard (Nepali)

Ministry of Health, Nepal (2010) C1

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Improving Burial Practices and Cemetery Management During an Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic — Sierra Leone, 2014

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC (2015)

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) January 16, 2015 / 64(01);20-27

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Conflict in South Sudan: A Human Rights Report

United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) (2014)

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Guidelines for Tuberculosis Infection Control
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Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, The United Republic of Tanzania (2010) C1

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Guideline on Cholera outbreak management Ethiopia
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Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (2011) C1

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National Health Care Waste Management Guidelines

Kingdom of Swaziland Ministry of Health (2013) C1

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International Maternal & Child Health Care - A practical manual for hospitals worldwide

Maternal & Childhealth Advocacy International (MCAI) , Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) Radcliffe (2015) C2

The purpose of adding the books to the website of MCAI for download, is to make this life-saving, up-to-date information available to all who need it. Fill in a short registration field and you can download the pdf-files. If you work in a hospital in a low income country - providing free care - y... more