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What Have We Learned? Capacity Building for Health Responses in Disasters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Debarati Guha-Sapir
Debarati Guha-Sapir
Affiliation:
Director, World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters
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Abstract

This is a synthesis of the presentations and discussions pertaining to Capacity Building for Health Responses in Disasters 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: (1) Specific goals; (2)Main focal areas, including available training programs, country-specific training programs, targeted technical assistance for training programs, certified training programs, and ensuring that funding is available for training; (3) What has been achieved in building capacity; (4) Challenges; (5) Where capacity building is needed; and (6) Conclusions and recommendations.

Keywords

autonomycapacity buildingcertificationcompetenciesdefinitionsdisastereducationeffectivenessefficiencyfundinghealthlaboratoriesmedical carepoliciespublic healthself-reliancesustainabilitytraining
Type
WHO Special Report: Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 20 , Issue 6 , December 2005 , pp. 480 - 482
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2005

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