Corona Virus International Public Health Emergencies: Implications for Radiology Management

Public health implications of complex emergencies and natural disasters

Background During the last decade, conflict or natural disasters have displaced unprecedented numbers of persons. This leads to conditions prone to outbreaks that imperil the health of displaced persons and threaten global health security. Past literature has minimally examined the association of communicable disease outbreaks with complex emergencies (CEs) and natural disasters (NDs). Method...

Risk communication for public health emergencies.

This review defines crisis risk communication, traces its origins to a number of applied fields, and then shows how basic principles have become incorporated into emergency preparedness and risk communication for public health. Literature from four different disciplines that inform crisis risk communications are reviewed. These are (a) environmental risk communication, (b) disaster management, ...

Public health emergencies: What Counts?

Global climate change: implications for international public health policy.

a Department of Public Health and Environment, World Health Organization, 20 avenue Appia, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum (email: [email protected]). Ref. No. 06-039503 (Submitted: 5 December 2006 – Final revised version received: 28 December 2006 – Accepted: 2 January 2007) Introduction The evidence for anthropogenic climate change is now clea...

International financial institutions and human rights: implications for public health

Serving as lender of last resort to countries experiencing unsustainable levels of public debt, international financial institutions have attracted intense controversy over the past decades, exemplified most recently by the popular discontent expressed in Eurozone countries following several rounds of austerity measures. In exchange for access to financial assistance, borrowing countries must s...