Overview: Health emergency and disaster risk management
Source
World Health Organization (WHO)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Public Health England
These advocacy materials are an introduction for health workers engaged in Health-EDRM and for multisectoral partners to consider how to integrate health into their emergency risk management strategies.
This overview places Health-EDRM in the context of multisectoral action and focuses on the generic elements, including potential hazards, vulnerabilities of a population, and capacities, which apply across the various health domains.