Assessing Needs in the Health Sector after Floods and Hurricanes (PAHO): Bibliography

Assessing Needs in the Health Sector after Floods and Hurricanes (PAHO)

		(introductory text...)
		1. Introduction
		2. Critical decisions
		3. Magnitude of the impact
		4. Morbidity and mortality
		5. Environmental sanitation
		6. Vectors
		7. Food and nutritional status
		8. Evacuation camps
		9. The health center
		10. Surveillance systems
		Bibliography

Bibliography

Assar, M. Guide to Environmental Sanitation after Disasters. World Health Organization, Geneva, 1971.

de Ville de Goyet, C., J. Seaman, and U. Geijer. The Management of Nutritional Emergencies in Large Populations. World Health Organization, Geneva, 1978.

Gueri, M., J. Jutsum, and B. Sorhaindo. "Anthropometric assessment of nutritional status in pregnant women." Amer J Clin Nutr 35:609-611, 1982a.

Gueri, M., B. Allen, and M. Iton. Nutritional status of vulnerable groups in evacuation camps during the eruption of La Soufriere Volcano in St. Vincent 1977." Disasters 6:10-15, 1982b.

Gurney, J.M. "Field experience in Abeokuta, Nigeria." In: The arm circumference as a public health index of protein-caloric malnutrition of early childhood," pp. 225-232, E.F.P. Jelliffe and D.B. Jelliffe, eds. J Trop Pediatr 15:117-260, 1969.

Jelliffe, D.B. The Assessment of the Nutritional Status of the Community. WHO Monograph Ser 53, Geneva, 1966.

Lares, A. La Conducta Humana en los Desastres. Fondo Editorial Común, Caracas, 1977.

Lelis, X. Report on Disasters and Emergency Preparedness for Jamaica, St. Vincent and Dominica, Disaster Reports, No. 2. Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., 1984.

PAHO. Emergency Health Management after Natural Disaster, Sci Pub No. 407. Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., 1981.

PAHO. Vector Control after Natural Disasters, Sci Pub No. 419. Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., 1982a.

PAHO. Environmental Health after Natural Disasters, Sci Pub No. 430. Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., 1982b.

Spirgi, E.H. Disaster Management. Holdan Books Ltd. London, 1979.

Touzet, J.M. "Informe al Ministerio de Salud sobre el Problema de Oficios durante las Inundaciones de 1983 en Ecuador." Ministry of Health, Ecuador, 1983.

UNHCR. Handbook for Emergencies. Geneva, 1982.

Vargas de Mayo, C. "Manual pare Análisis Bacteriológico de Aguas Naturales en Situaciones de Desastre" (elide/booklet presentation). Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., 1984.

Western, K.A. Epidemiological Surveillance after Natural Disaster, Sci Pub No. 420. Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C., 1982.