Community resilience in disasters
How the Primary Health Care approach made a difference in recent emergencies in the WHO South-East Asia Region:
This publication addresses the concept of primary health care in the WHO South-East Asia region. It looks at how this concept has been applied and how it has worked in previous emergencies in the region, and provides snapshots of how communities can be more resilient in the protection and promotion of health in emergency situations.
It contains:
- Helping themselves: The people’s initial response
- The value of traditional wisdom and modern awareness
- Making Nepal’s Patan Hospital disaster-resilient
- The importance of local capacity in responding to an emergency
- Grassroots preparedness makes the difference in Myanmar
- Role of training: The Sri Lanka experience
- Bangladesh’s improved disaster preparedness through an early warning system
- Cooperation among sectors improves humanitarian response
- Disaster preparedness drills save lives during the West Sumatra, Indonesia earthquake
- Appropriate sanitation technologies for flood-prone area
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