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Panel 2.8: Water, Sanitation, Food Safety, and Environmental Health

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Md Shafiqul Islam ,
Han Antonius Heijnen ,
Deepthi Sumanasekera ,
Vivien Walden ,
Michel Roulet  and
Abdul Sattar Yoosuf
Md Shafiqul Islam
Affiliation:
Joint Secretary Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bangladesh
Han Antonius Heijnen
Affiliation:
Water, Sanitation, and Health, World Health Organization/South East Asia outh Region
Deepthi Sumanasekera
Affiliation:
Assistant General Manager (Rural Water Supply), National Water Supply and Drainage Board, SriLanka
Vivien Walden
Affiliation:
Health Advise, Humanitarian Department, Oxfam, Great Britain
Michel Roulet
Affiliation:
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Swiss Foreign Ministry
Abdul Sattar Yoosuf
Affiliation:
Director, Department of Sustainable Development and Healthy Envir Environments/South East Asia Region
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Abstract

This is a summary of the presentations and discussion by the panel that addressed issues with Water, Sanitation, Food Safety, and Environmental Health during 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 water, sanitation, food safety, and environmental health as pertain to the responses to the damage created by the Tsunami. It is presented in the following major sections: (1) needs assessments; (2) institutional capacity and coordination; (3) what was done wel well, and what could have been done better?; and (4) capacity building and preparedness. Topics discussed in the needs assessment section included: (1) water supply; (2) hygiene; and (3) lessons learned. Topics discussed realated to capacity building and preparedness included: (1) waste and vector-bor borne diseases; (2) food safety; (3) nutrition; and (4) environmental health.

Keywords

coordinationdamagediseaseenvironmentfood safetyhealthhygieneimpactnutritionpreparednesssanitationtsunamivector-bornewaste managementwater
Type
WHO Special Report: Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 20 , Issue 6 , December 2005 , pp. 423 - 427
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2005

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