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Taxonomy Archive: Disaster preparedness
20 Apr 2018 |
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Is Your State Prepared For The Health Impacts Of Climate Change?
This winter, a strange sickness has been spreading through the Caribbean. In St. Martin alone, where the disease was first detected in December, there have been over 500 confirmed cases and another 3,200 people are believed to have contracted the disease elsewhere in the Caribbean. The disease, Chikungunya fever, was once only seen ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Social Learning for Community Resilience: Reducing the Risks from Flooding In and Around Crediton
Social Learning for Community Resilience: Reducing the Risks from Flooding In and Around Crediton
20 Apr 2018 |
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Ready for Change: A Report on Climate Change Trainings for Public Health and Emergency Preparedness Sectors in Oregon
In 2011, the Oregon Health Authority, in partnership with the Research Innovation Group, delivered trainings designed to provide an overview of climate change impacts, resulting consequences for public health, and introduce potential tools and resources that build capacity to prepare for change.This document provides a summary of the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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When Every Drop Counts: Protecting Public Health During Drought Conditions—A Guide for Public Health Professionals
This document provides an overview of basic drought- and water-related information and principles, as well as numerous drought-related public health effects.This document also contains information regarding drought preparation and response. Those which should be conducted before, and in the early stages, and those relevant to late ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Gender, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Climate Change Adaptation: A Learning Companion
This Companion provides the theoretical overview of how poverty and inequality shape the experiences of women and men during disasters, and as a result of climate change;analyses Oxfam’s approach to strengthening gender equality and women’s rights through gender mainstreaming, and how this is applied to adaptation and risk ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Excessive Heat Emergency Response Plan
The purpose of this plan is to provide information and to identify the DHHS role in response to excessive heat emergencies in the State in collaboration with the NR Public Health Regions and with other State agencies, and in accordance with the National Incident Management Systems. The plan includes the threshold for response ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Maryland Heat Emergency Plan 2012 Version 1.0
The Maryland State Heat Emergency Plan guides Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s actions during an extreme heat event. This plan also provides guidance for local health departments to support them as they fulfill their roles.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Heatwaves and Health: Guidance on Warning-System Development
Heat or hot weather that lasts for several days, often referred to as “a heatwave” can have a significant impact on society, including a rise in mortality and morbidity. Heatwaves also place an increased strain on infrastructure (power, water and transport). Clothes and food retailing, tourism and ecosystem services can also be ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Climate Change and Extreme Heat Events
Extreme heat events pose a serious danger to people throughout the United States. Studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have shown that exposure to extreme heat can increase discomfort and fatigue, cause heat cramps, and increase emergency room visits and hospitalizations. It can also kill. From ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Minimum Standards for local climate-smart disaster risk reduction
Climate change is increasing the risk of extreme events and disasters.1 While disaster risk reduction (DRR) offers an important opportunity to adapt to current climate variability, in order to be successful, DRR efforts must also take into account changing climate‐related risks in the medium to long‐term. Many national climate ...