Families and Societies Working Paper Series Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                A community-based approach.
These guidelines focus on manmade rather than natural disasters, but our experiences in India, El Salvador and Pakistan (earthquake interventions), and following the 2004 tsunami, cyclone Nargis in 2008 and the Haiti earthquake in 2010, showed that the principles describ
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                                        ed also work well in contexts of natural disasters. 
                                    
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                                A Manual for Maternity Unit Personnel - Part of the CBM Prevention Toolkit on Birth Impairments
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has produced a three-volume series entitled Managing Hazardous Material Incidents. The series is designed to help emergency response and health care professionals plan for and respond to hazardous material emergencies.
- Volume I Emergenc
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                                        y Medical Services: A Planning Guide for the Management of Contaminated Patients
- Volume II Hospital Emergency Departments: A Planning Guide for the Management of Contaminated Patients
- Volume III Medical Management Guidelines for Acute Chemical Exposures 
Volumes I and II are planning guides to assist first responders and hospital emergency department personnel in planning for incidents that involve hazardous materials.
Volume III is a guide for health care professionals who treat persons who have been exposed to hazardous materials. 
                                    
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                                This Guide contains information, guidelines, diagrams and other materials addressed to medical practitioners who are engaged in the treatment of casualties of chemical weapons. It is made available to the public for information purposes, but is not intended to be used by the public. All decisions re
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                                        garding patient care must be made with a healthcare provider and consider the unique characteristics of each patient.
                                    
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                                "Patient decontamination principles are set forth here from a strategic perspective, rather than a tactical
one. The principles are meant to guide, but not specify, operational practices. The guidance is evidencebased
to the extent possible and the supporting evidence is documented and briefly dis
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                                Chapter 2 in "Latest Findings in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research" Edited by Üner Tan, ISBN 978-953-307-865-6, 404 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published February 15, 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license | Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities presents reports on a wide rang
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                                        e of areas in the field of neurological and intellectual disability, including habitual human quadrupedal locomotion with associated cognitive disabilities, Fragile X syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome, and intellectual developmental disability among children in an African setting. Studies are presented from researchers around the world, looking at aspects as wide-ranging as the genetics behind the conditions to new and innovative therapeutic approaches. (All chapters available online: https://www.intechopen.com/books/latest-findings-in-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities-research)
                                    
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                                This  Joint  Emergency  Management  Plan  of  the  International  Organizations  (Joint  Plan)  describes  the 
interagency  framework  of  preparedness  for  and  response  to  an  actual,  potential  or  perceived  nuclear  or 
radiological emergency independent of whether it arises from an acci
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                                        dent, natural disaster, negligence, nuclear 
security event or any other cause. 
                                    
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                                The aim of this publication is to provide practical guidance for public information officers on the  preparation  for  and  response  to  a  nuclear  or  radiological  emergency,  and  to  fulfil  in  part  functions  assigned  to  the  IAEA  in  the  Convention  on  Assistance  in  the  Case  of  a
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                                          Nuclear  
Accident   or   Radiological   Emergency   (Assistance   Convention),   as   well   as   meeting   requirements   stated   in   IAEA   Safety   Standards   Series   No.   SF-1,   Fundamental   Safety   Principles,  and  in  IAEA  Safety  Standards  No.  GS-R-2,  Preparedness  and  Response  for  a  Nuclear or Radiological Emergency. 
Also available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish: https://www-pub.iaea.org/books/IAEABooks/8889/Communication-with-the-Public-in-a-Nuclear-or-Radiological-Emergency
                                    
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                                This course describes the health effects of war, weapons and strategies of violent conflict. Beginning with weapons of mass destruction it then moves on to other weapons and strategies of war such as the use of landmines and mass rape. The course concludes with a number of lessons which give an hist
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                                        orical and practical analysis of the response of health professional groups to war and militarisation.
                                    
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                                The risks of the use of nuclear, radiological, biological or chemical (NRBC) weapons are heterogeneous. Each risk has its own implications for developing and deploying any capacity to assist victims of an NRBC event and, in parallel, for the health and security of the people bringing this assistance
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                                        . At an international level, there are no plans for assisting the victims of an NRBC event which are both adequate and safe. Recognizing
the realities of the contexts associated with each risk throws up numerous challenges; such recognition is also a prerequisite for addressing these challenges. The realities that have to be considered relate to:
1. developing, acquiring, training for and planning an NRBC response capacity; 
2. deploying a response capacity in an NRBC event;
3. the mandates and policies of international organizations pertaining to NRBC events. The challenges that will pose the greatest difficulty for a humanitarian organization are those for which the solutions are ‘non-buyable’ and which involve making extremely difficult decisions. Attempting to assist victims of an NRBC event without a reality-based approach might generate ineffective and unacceptably dangerous situations for those involved. 
                                    
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                                "This Code provides practical guidance on how to manage health and safety risks associated with hazardous
chemicals for persons conducting a business or undertaking who use chemicals in their workplace."
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                Persons with disabilities are one of the most vulnerable and socially excluded groups in any crisis-affected community. They may be in hidden in homes, overlooked during needs assessments and not consulted in the design of programs.4 While gender-based violence (GBV) affects women, girls, men and bo
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                                        ys, the vast majority of survivors globally are women and girls.5 Persons with disabilities have difficulty accessing GBV programs, due to a variety of societal, environmental and communication barriers, increasing their risk of violence, abuse and exploitation.
                                    
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                                A manual for people working in environments contaminated by landmines and other explosive hazards including improvised explosive devices.
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                
                                Reducing the humanitarian impact of the use of explosive weapons in populated areas is a key priority for the United 
Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), civil society and an increasing number of Member States. 
The United Nations Secretary-General has expressly called on
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                                         parties to conflict to avoid the use in populated areas of 
explosive weapons with wide-area effects. 
While the use of explosive weapons in populated areas may in some circumstances be lawful under international 
humanitarian law (IHL), empirical evidence reveals a foreseeable and often widespread pattern of harm to civilians, 
particularly from explosive weapons with wide-area effects. 
Many types of explosive weapons exist and are currently in use. These include air-delivered bombs, artillery projectiles, 
missiles and rockets, mortar bombs, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Some are launched from the air and 
others are surface launched. Whilst different technical features dictate their accuracy of delivery and explosive effect, 
these weapons generally create a zone of blast and fragmentation with the potential to kill, injure or damage anyone 
or anything within that zone. This makes their use in populated areas – such as towns, cities, markets and camps for 
refugees and displaced persons or other concentrations of civilians – particularly problematic. The problems increase 
further if the effects of the weapon extend across a wide-area either because of the scale of blast that they produce; their 
inaccuracy; the use of multiple munitions across an area; or a combination thereof.
                                    
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