TAILIEUCHUNG - Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters: Guidelines for the Promotion of Disaster Mitigation

Hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, landslides and volcanic eruptions—and the devastation they inflict—are all too familiar to the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. In the last decade, natural disasters have caused more than 45,000 deaths in the region, left 40 million injured or in need of assistance, and carried a price tag—in direct damage alone—of more than US$20 The health sector has proven particularly vulnerable to such havoc. In the course of the past 20 years, as a result of natural disasters, more than 100 hospitals and 650 health centers have collapsed or been so severely damaged that they had to be evacuated. According to the United Nations Economic Commission. | Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters Guidelines for the Promotion of Disaster Mitigation The World Bank Group Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters Guidelines for the Promotion of Disaster Mitigation Produced by Tarina García Concheso based on Guidelines For Vulnerability Reduction in the Design of New Health Facilities by R. Boroschek and R. Retamales of the PAHO WHO Collaborating Center at the University of Chile and on the recommendations adopted at the international meeting Hospitals in Disasters Handle with Care El Salvador July 2003. The World Bank Group Pan American Health Organization Regional Office of the World Health Organization Area on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief Washington . 2003 PAHO Library Cataloguing in Publication Pan American Health Organization Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters Guidelines for the Promotion of Disaster Mitigation Washington . PAHO World Bank 2003. ISBN 92 75 124841 I Title 1. VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS 2. PREVENTION AND MITIGATION 3. HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE 4. NATURAL DISASTERS 5. DISASTER PLANNING NLM 2003 En Pan American Health Organization 2003 A publication of the Area on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief of the Pan American Health Organization World Health Organization in collaboration with the World Bank. The views expressed the recommendations made and the terms employed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the current criteria or policies of the Pan American Health Organization or of its Member States. PAHO and WHO welcome requests for permission to reproduce or translate in part or in full this publication. Applications and inquiries from the Americas should be addressed to the Area on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief Pan American Health Organization 525 Twenty-third Street . Washington . 20037 USA fax 202 775-4578 email disaster-publica-tions@. This publication has been made possible through

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• Disaster Mitigation
• Natural Disasters
• Natural Phenomena
• Health Infrastructure
• Health Infrastructure
• health sector
• Disaster prone II
• Household characteristics
• Capitals of households
• Mitigation performance
• Household living in disaster prone II
• Tạp chí khoa học
• Tạp chí Công nghệ
• Quản lý công nghệ
• Disaster Risk Management
• Early warning of natural disasters
• Prevention and mitigation of natural disasters
• Climate change
• Disaster risk
• Saltwater intrusion
• River bank erosion
• Non construction solutions play
• Resilient land use planning
• Hazard mitigation
• Health insurance system
• Statutory health insurance sector
• Private health insurance sector
• Health economics
• Financial crisis
• Public health
• Cross sector coalition
• Community health
• Food environment
• Learning opportunities
• mental health
• mental disorders
• Health Financing
• Deliver Services
• Health finance
• Unorganized sector
• Elderly women
• Health status of elderly
• Elderly women in unorganized sector
• Unorganized sectors
• somalia
• sector
• health
• aid
• decade
• Emanuele Capobianco
• STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK
• OVERALL COMMUNICATION
• AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
• HUMAN HEALTH SECTOR
• PAHI Partnership Framework
• Animal Health Workers
• Community Partners
• Global Implications
• Violence Prevention
• Legal Reforms
• aids
• hiv
• impact
• cooking
• food
• benefit
• tricare
• design
• private
• insights
• plans
• costs
• employer
• provided
• pharmacy
• Improvement factors for the mitigation of labor incidents
• The colombian productive sector
• The mitigation of labor incidents
• The physical and mental health
• Laissez fair leadership role in organizational innovation
• The mediating effect of organization structure
• Random sampling technique
• Laissez Fair leadership
• Jordanian health sector
• Organizational structure positive impact
• Health services sector
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• báo cáo sinh học
• công trình nghiên cứu về sinh học
• tài liệu về sinh học
• cách trình bày báo cáo
• Planning Incorporation
• Policy and Management
• Medical Devices
• Care Sector in Benin
• Global Health
• Non Communicable Diseases
• Patient involvement
• healthcare professionals
• individual patients
• ydrolized Sunflower
• Lecithins by Phospholipases
• Different Sources
• technical summary
• Coronary Interventions
• Vascular Access
• Percutaneous Coronary
• Coronary Intervention
• Cardiac Arrest Survivors
• ecall or difficulties
• Medicines adherence
• encouraging patients
• Salt Tolerance
• Harvested Fruits
• Fruits and Vegetables
• BMC Psychology
• Third sector
• Interventions increasingly recognized
• Public sector
• Voluntary interventions
• Conceptual Background
• Liver Transplantation
• Private Sector
• Cooperative Research
• Health Status
• environmental attributes
• Methods employed
• Diagnosis of pulmonary
• Clinical diagnosis
• Drug treatment
• short course
• treatment failure
• medicine availability
• private pharmacies
• Regulatory Mechanism
• Asexual Cycles
• Terpenoids and Gibberellic
• Acids Interaction
• Compromised Fetus
• Recent Insights
• Insulin Like Growth
• Factor Axis
• Preeclampsia
• Blood Parameters
• economic research
• Angiogenic Factors
• Local Immune
• Mechanisms Involved
• Formation of Endometriotic
• Endometriotic Lesions