#INTRODUCTION
Although many emergencies and disasters are often unpredictable, much can be done to reduce their health impact by reducing the risks and by strengthening the response capacity of communities at risk.
Population growth, expansion into previously uninhabited areas, and environmental degradation have all increased the exposure of most countries to natural hazards including cyclonic storms, floods and famine, while exposure to hazards such as earthquakes and tsunamis is ever-present in many regions of the world.
#KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Basic concepts in disaster management
- Disaster management and Risk management
- Public health impact in general: prevalence rate, incidence rate, crude mortality rate, crude fatality rate
- Public health impact in children: immediate (death, injury, mental health), medium (common illnesses, mental health), long term (nutrition, communicable diseases, disability and mental health)
- Damage and need assessment
- Emergency health information management
- Leadership in crisis
- Trauma and injury
- Mass casualty management: pre-hospital, hospital and triage.
- Search and rescue, evacuation and first aid
- Immediate Medical Response:
- Threat of communicable diseases
- Outbreak, epidemic, endemic, pandemic.
- Early warning of diseases
- Mental health
- Risk factors
- Vulnerabilities
- Nutrition
- Infant and young child feeding
- Prenatal care for pregnant women
- Recognition of high-risk pregnancy and delivery
- Children with special needs
- Emergency preparedness
- Capacity building
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LOCATION: NAIROBI KENYA
DURATION: 5 DAYS
DATE: 12 JUNE 2017
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