The Johns Hopkins and Red Cross/Red Crescent public health guide for emergencies

This guide is designed to serve as a reference for such training for government, Red Cross, and local non-government groups. Although the focus is on emergency situations, primarily in Africa, extensive coverage is given to pre- and post-emergency activities for which many local organizations are taking an increasing responsibility. The guide is divided into 14 chapters as follows: (1) disaster characteristics and trends and their consequences on displaced and host populations, as well as the future of humanitarian assistance in terms of disaster preparedness and developmental relief; (2) management tools; (3) human resource management; (4) disaster epidemiology; (5) environmental health, with a subchapter on vector control; (6) food and nutrition; (7) control of communicable diseases, with subchapters on diarrheal disease control and emergency immunization programs: (8) primary health care; (9) emergency health services; (10) the incident management system, a proven tool for coordinating the relief response; (11) reproductive health care; (12) emergency mental health care, with a subchapter on the needs of children and adolescents; (13) new technologies in humanitarian emergencies: and (14) the role of the media in humanitarian emergencies.