strategy
Providing medical relief for large-scale emergencies
Synonyms:
Facilitating emergency accident proceduresSupplying emergency health aid
Improving disaster medicine
Providing humanitarian medical relief
Providing emergency health services
Context:
Natural and manmade disasters are major causes of premature death, impaired health status, and diminished quality of life even in the developed countries both in technology and in medicine. Disasters also result in an extraordinary increase in economic costs for health of people in the stricken areas. Implementation:
In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) responded to over 50 emergencies, 28 of those involved complex war and civil strife. Recently adopted resolutions have facilitated WHO to become more involved with humanitarian assistance. WHO activities for the year include helping with other organizations to implement a primary health care programme for 100,000 demobilized soldiers in Mozambique, rehabilitating 40 Ethiopian health centres and hospitals, helping in the resettlement of half a million Eritreans, providing emergency medical assistance to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the former Yugoslavia, supplying new emergency medical kits to countries affected by disasters, enumerating the emergency health requirements for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Tajikistan, helping in the repatriation of Cambodian refugees, continuing its Hedip programme (Health and Development of Displaced Populations) activities in Croatia, Mozambique and Sri Lanka, among others.Hôpital sans frontière activities for 1993 include equipping, managing and training all nine hospital departments in Somalia, and providing 75 cubic meters worth of hospital equipment and medicines for Sarajevo hospitals, among others.
In 1993, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the Italian Red Cross began supporting a 100 bed hospital in Somalia.
Broader:
Providing servicesProviding health servicesIncreasing health knowledgeImproving development assistanceProviding emergency humanitarian aidProviding emergency medical assistance Narrower:
Caring for burnsProviding emergency accident serviceEnsuring local emergency medical facilitiesProviding international health care assistanceProtecting medical staff engaged on hazardous duties Facilitated by:
Providing blood transfusionsResearching disaster medicineUndertaking pre-disaster planningEducating about disaster medicineDisclosing by industry of chemical risks and emergency responseProtecting nongovernmental organisations engaged in hazardous duties Problems:
Inadequate disaster rescue and reliefInadequate emergency medical services
Natural disasters
Organizations:
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies World Health Organization AMDA International European Society for Emergency Medicine World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine Global Health Disaster Network Medical Teams International Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine Flights for Humanity Institute for International Emergency Medicine Subjects:
Medicine → Medicine Social Activity → Welfare
Social Activity → Services
Commerce → Purchasing, supplying
Societal Problems → Accidents
Societal Problems → Emergencies
Health Care → Health
Cybernetics → Cybernetics
Development → Reform
Development → Aid
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
