Highlights:
1.An emergency is an exceptional situation exceeding the response capacity of the affected
community
2.For field assessment purposes it can be defined as any situation causing more than one persondead, above 10 injured or significant displacement caused by any unexpected event
3.Rapid health assessments are not expected following road traffic accidents
4.Unusual disease incidents need to be reported in the separate post-emergency syndromic
surveillance format
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Publisher:
WHO
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(2014
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Type / Script:
Bulletin or Poster
in English
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Keywords:
HEALTH, HEALTH SERVICES, EPIDEMIOLOGY, DISEASES, DISEASE CONTROL, DISEASE PREVENTION, PUBLIC HEALTH, POPULATION, DISASTERS, LANDSLIDES, FLOODS, MORTALITY, MORBIDITY, HOSPITALS, WATER, SANITATION, HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE, LOGISTICS, MEDICINE
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Thematic Group:
WHO
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World Health Organization
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Thesaurus:
10.03.01
- Disease Prevention And Control
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