Information regarding insulin storage and switching between products in an emergency
It provides information about the use of insulin for the treatment of disaster victims and presents the importance of the correct insulin storage to preserve its potencies.
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Disaster Victims, Insulin/therapeutic use, Drug Storage, 16719, Emergency Medicine
The next challenge in healthcare preparedness: catastrophic health events
Preparedness report which proposes key elements of national strategy for health care preparedness and response. Publication from January, 2010. Available in pdf format.
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50230, Civil Defense, Disasters, Mass Casualty Incidents, Biological Disaster, Disease Outbreaks
Influenza H1N1
Página do Ministério da Saúde brasileiro para divulgar informações sobre a gripe H1N1. Traz dúvidas freqüentes, apresenta o Programa Nacional de Imunizações (PNI) e a campanha de vacinação ...
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Influenza Vaccines, Influenza, Human/prevention & control, Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype, Mass Vaccination, Health Policy
Malaria acquired in Haiti: 2010
Article published in March, 5, 2010 on the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) 59(08) which informs about cases of malaria that hit Haiti during its reconstruction after the earthquake.
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Malaria/epidemiology, 34691
Out of Aceh's experience, hope for rebuilding Haiti
Text from the World Bank's country director for Indonesia about the successful reconstruction of the province of Aceh, which was struck by a tsunami in December, 2004, and its relation to Haiti recons...
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Natural Disasters, Post Disaster Reconstruction
Protecting the children of Haiti
Article published in February, 2010 on the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) 362(9) about children's situation on Haiti after the earthquake. It includes photos.
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Child, Child, Orphaned, Homeless Youth, Child Health, Disaster Victims, 34691
The earthquake in Haiti: dispatch from Port-au-Prince
Article published on the New England Journal of Medicine 362(7) in which authors report the work developed by the Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO)...
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Relief Work, Disaster Victims, Emergency Medical Services
Biblioteca Virtual de Salud y Desastres = Health Library for Disasters = Bibliothèque Virtuelle Santé et Catastrophes
Colección electrónica con recursos de información sobre salud pública para preparación y respuesta a desastres y emergencias complejas. Contiene guías técnicas, manuales, guías de campo, crón...
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Disasters, Disaster Emergencies, Disaster Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Libraries, Digital
GIDEON
User ID: s2759300 and password: trialGIDEON is a knowledge management tool used for diagnosis and reference in the fields of tropical and infectious diseases, epidemiology, microbiology, and antimicro...
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05/03/2010
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Electronic Publications, Communicable Diseases/epidemiology, sgnosisgnosisgnosisgnosisgnosis
DynaMed
User: s2759300 and password: trial.DynaMed has summaries for nearly 3,000 disease topics and 800 drug records. The information is from medical journals, associations, and contributing clinicians and i...
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Health Resources, Electronic Publications
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