South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami

List of Guidelines for Health Emergencies

                

*     General Management and Health Systems

*  WHO Emergency Essentials for Public Health Workers and Country Staff

*  WHO Pre-disaster Activities

*  WHO Shelter and Emergency Settlements

*  WHO/PAHO:  Media and Emergencies

*  WHO/PAHO Offers and Requests for External Medical Teams

*  WHO/PAHO:  The Do’s and Dont’s of Humanitarian Supplies Management

*  WHO/PAHO:  Humanitarian Assistance in Disaster Situations – A Guide for Effective Aid

*  WHO Human Resources in Emergencies

*   Guidelines for Safe Disposal of unwanted Pharmaceuticals in and after Emergencies

 

*     Dead Bodies

*    WHO Mortuary Service and Handling of the Dead in Emergencies

*    Disposal of dead bodies

 

*      Management of Hazardous and Infectious waste

*   Four steps for the sound management of health care wastes in emergencies

*   Practical Guidelines for Infection Control in Health Care Facilities

*   Management of solid health-care waste at primary health-care centres

*   Managing hazardous wastes: Asbestos and building materials

*   Hazardous Waste Management in Tsunami-Affected Areas: Emergency Phase

*     Health Assessment

*   WHO First Situation Report

*   First Needs Assessment Situation Report

*   Reference Values in Health Emergency

*   SEARO:  Rapid Needs Assessment – Water Sanitation and Hygiene

*     Women and Children

*    WHO Service Package for Reproductive Health

*    PAHO: Recommendations for the Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Emergencies

*    PAHO: Recommendations for Prenatal care and Delivery Care in Emergencies

*   Gender and disaster

*   Gender-based violence in disaster

*    Reproductive health services during conflict and displacement: a guide for programme managers

*    Reproductive health in refugee situations. An inter-agency field manual

*   Gender Considerations in Disaster Assessment [pdf 109kb]

*   Gender and Health in Disasters

*   Guidelines for management of childhood illnesses (Working Document)

*      Psychological support

*     Mental Health and Psychosocial Relief Efforts after the Tsunami in South-East Asia

*     WHO Framework for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support after the Tsunami

*     WHO Mental Health in Emergencies [PDF 75 kb]

*    Psychological support to the community : Acute Emergency Phase

*    WHO/SEARO Technical Guidelines and update from the Mental Health Unit of SEARO

*    Mental and social health during and after emergencies [PDF 187 kb]

*    Psychosocial Care of Tsunami -Affected Populations

*     Caring for Your Own  Emotional Well-being - Guidelines for Relief Workers [PDF 49 kb]

*      Manual for Community Level Workers [PDF – 97 kb]

*      Manual for Trainers of Community Level Workers [PDF 131 kb]

*       Manual for Physicians [PDF 129 kb]

*    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

*    Helping Children after a disaster

*    Preventing suicide a resource for general physician [PDF 63 kb]

*    Preventing suicide a resource for primary health care workers [PDF 62 kb]

*    Preventing suicide a resource for primary teachers and other school staff [PDF 82 kb]

*     Adolescent and youth education in emergencies [PDF 874 kb]

 

*      Water

*    WHO Water Supply in Emergencies

*    Emergency treatment of drinking water

*    Rehabilitating small-scale water distributions systems

*    Rehabilitating water treatment works

*    Solar Disinfection of Water Manual

*    How to Measure Chlorine Residual

*    Cleaning and disinfecting wells

*    Cleaning and disinfecting boreholes

*    Cleaning and disinfecting water storage tanks

*    Delivering safe water by tanker

*   Minimum Water-quantity

 

*     Sanitation

*    WHO Sanitation in Emergencies

*    Essential Hygiene Messages

*    Planning Emergency Sanitation

*    Emergency sanitation: Technical Options

*    Solid Waste Management in Emergencies

*    WHO Checklist of Hygiene Practices that Protect Health in Emergencies and Disasters (annex 6)

 

*      Communicable Diseases

*      WHO Control of Communicable Disease and Prevention of Epidemics in Emergencies

*      WHO Guidelines for Outbreak Control

*      Guidelines for Collection of Specimens for Laboratory Tests

*      WHO Case Investigation Form

*      WHO Weekly Health Assessment

*      WHO  Outbreak Alert Form

*     WHO Case Management of Epidemic Prone Diseases

*     Managing a Diarrhea Disease Outbreak

*     Cholera in complex emergencies

*     Cholera outbreak response

*     WHO Guidelines for Control of Shigella in Emergencies

*     WHO:  Vector and Pest Control in Emergencies

*     WHO:  Malaria in Emergencies

*     Malaria Epidemiology and Control in Refugee Camps and Complex Emergencies

*     WHO Fact Sheet on Dengue

*     WHO Meningitis Guidelines

*     Training Resource on Primary Ear and Hearing Care

*      Rodent Control in Disaster Settings

*      Guidelines For Control Of Flies Closely Associated With Humans

*      Guidelines for Control of Mosquitoes and Flies in Tsunami-affected Areas

*     Fact Sheets

*     Malaria

*     Dengue

*     Cholera

*     Meningitis

*      Vaccines and Immunization

*   Joint WHO/UNICEF recommendation for Cholera Vaccine

*   Measles

*   Joint WHO/UNICEF recommendation for Typhoid Vaccine

*   Tetanus / use of human Immunoglobulines 

 

*     Food Safety and Nutrition

*    Food safety advice

*    Ciguatera Fish Poisoning: Questions and Answers

*     Guiding principles for feeding infants and young children in emergencies

*    Muslim authority declares fish consumption in tsunami affected waters is safe

*     Logistics and Supplies

*   WHO Emergency Health Kits

*   WHO Supply List for Emergencies (annex 2)

*   WHO Essential Medicines

*   WHO Model Drug List

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