The health sector has an important role in the immediate response and post-disaster, because not only limited to the treatment of the injured and affected psychosocial disaster but that is credited with ensuring the continuity of these services, at full capacity, the damage assessment and early rehabilitation and reconstruction of the effects on the provision of services, the health status of temporary accommodation in relation to basic sanitation, ensuring that affected communities receive water safe and quantities appropriate and adequate nutritional balance, and monitoring of community health for survivors are not affected by outbreaks or epidemics secondary to the effects of disaster, environmental damage or lack of maintenance of healthy habits.
So all these responsibilities is the issue of the organization before (preparation), coordination and proper management of information, which is constituted and a key success factor in the good performance of the sector health in response to adverse events.
Every disaster is a challenge to the health sector as it allows exercise in preparation of emergency plans and contingency, so that is always relevant conducting an assessment exercise, after a reasonable time in order to identify lessons that could have stopped the adversity and take corrective measures necessary to avoid a repetition of those aspects that require improvement.
late last year, with the support of Swedish Agency for International Development, SIDA, the English Agency for International Development Cooperation, AECI and the Pan American Health Organization-PAHO / WHO, was completed to produce the video below I share, which refers to the lessons learned in the field of health from the earthquake on August 15, 2007 that affected three rough areas of Peru. Also, late last year PAHO / WHO released the document "The earthquake and tsunami of February 27 in Chile: review and lessons learned in the health sector", in which content is not only describes those aspects related to the impact the disaster of 2010 in that country, but sets out the lessons learned in the health sector meet its risk management processes, especially in relation to its infrastructure, its preparation, organization the provision of services, epidemiological surveillance, community health, among others.
evaluate or performance of the health sector compared to an adverse event is also an essential component and valuable in the management of disaster risk.
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