Creating Less Disastrous Disasters

Information for disasters, information disasters, and disastrous information.

Information is needed to support humanitarian responses in every phase of a disaster. Participants of a multilateral working group convened to examine how best to meet these information needs. Although information systems based on routine reporting of diseases are desirable because they have the potential to identify trends, these systems usually do not deliver on their promise due to inadequat...

The dark side of professions – the role of professional autonomy in creating 'great professional disasters' *******************

Nutrition interventions for children aged less than 5 years following natural disasters: a systematic review

OBJECTIVES The objective of this paper was to review various nutritional interventions targeted at under-five children in countries that had suffered from natural disasters and to analyse their effect on nutrition-related outcomes. DESIGN Systematic review. SETTING Countries that had suffered from natural disasters. PARTICIPANTS Children aged <5 years who were given any nutritional interv...

Introduction : Disasters as Politics – Politics as Disasters

What is the relationship between politics and disasters and how does this relate to the recent boom in disaster studies? The introduction to this volume argues that the recent interest in disasters is not because there are more disasters, but because of two recent developments within the social sciences: first, a focus on rupture rather than on continuity and second, a focus on materiality. Dis...

The disastrous but preventable consequences of ICD-10.