Nursing 3310A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Immigration, Bioterrorism, Active Ingredient
24 Apr 2018
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Health promotion, caring, and health in the context of natural catastrophes. Bayntun, c. , rockenschaub, g. , & murray, v. (2012). Developing a health system approach to disaster management: a qualitative analysis of the core literature to complement the who toolkit for assessing health-system capacity for crisis management. Each disaster and its context are different, yet many share similar health sector vulnerabilities and thus common disaster management practices and policies can be built in to the health system to create resilience the (cid:858)all-hazards(cid:859) approa(cid:272)h. Floods in pakistan, july to august 2010, affected 20 million people and destroyed health facilities. Previous disaster management investment in southern punjab region allowed for effective evacuations and saved lives: the famine in the horn of africa in 2011 affected 10 million people across several countries. The who regional office for europe has adopted health system strengthening as the approach to support emergency preparedness and enhancement of crisis management capacities of member states.
