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Session 1.4: Health Services Delivery: A Critical Review of Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Jack Smith ,
Sheri Fink ,
Steve Hansch ,
Abdul Azeez Yoosuf ,
K.O.H. Peng Keng  and
Dana van Alphen
Jack Smith
Affiliation:
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Department of Defense, Washington, DC, USA
Sheri Fink
Affiliation:
Visiting Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Steve Hansch
Affiliation:
Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Abdul Azeez Yoosuf
Affiliation:
Director General, Health Services, Maldives
K.O.H. Peng Keng
Affiliation:
Senior Director Operations, Ministry of Health, Singapore
Dana van Alphen
Affiliation:
Region Advisor, Disaster Management Program, Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization (WHO)
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Abstract

This is a summary of the presentations and discussion of Session 1.4, Health Services Delivery: A CriticalReview of Experience, of the Conference, Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Phuket, Thailand, 04–06 May 2005. The topics discussed included issues related to health services delivery as pertaining to the responses to the damage created by the Tsunami. It is presented in the following major sections: (1) needs assessment; (2) coordination; (3) filling of gaps; (4) capacity building; and (5) lessons learned.

Keywords

capacitycoordinationdeliverydisastersexperiencegap fillinghealthMaldivesneeds assessmentpreparednessresponseservicesSingaporeTsunami
Type
WHO Special Report: Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 20 , Issue 6 , December 2005 , pp. 389 - 392
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2005

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