Citation
(2001), "A new and expanded edition of the Virtual Health Library for Disasters", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 10 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2001.07310eab.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
A new and expanded edition of the Virtual Health Library for Disasters
A new and expanded edition of the Virtual Health Library for Disasters
Two years ago PAHO produced the first edition of the Virtual Disaster Library on CD-ROM. Now several other organizations have teamed up with WHO and PAHO and the result is the newly released 2001 edition. The latest Virtual Health Library for Disasters incorporates the works of many new partner organizations and consequently offers a much broader variety of information on disaster preparedness, mitigation, management and response. The Virtual Health Library for Disasters is now truly a global collection, the result of a process of consultation and exchange among the disaster and emergency programs of WHO and PAHO, other WHO technical divisions, agencies such as UNHCR, UNICEF, the ISDR, the Red Cross Movement, Project Sphere, NGOs such as OXFAM and national organizations such as Costa Rica's National Emergency Commission. Thanks to support from these organizations, the new Virtual Disaster Library contains more than 300 scientific and technical documents including the most important works published by these agencies on disasters and emergencies. It also:
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Has a powerful and improved search engine to locate information by subject (see list below), country, keyword, title or publisher. Full-text search is also an option.
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Is available to millions on the Internet (in addition to the CD-ROM) free of charge, any time, anywhere.
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Offers all documents in HTML and many in PDF format.
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Is an open and dynamic collection with room to grow.
The inter-agency collaboration that sparked the creation of this collection should be permanent and ongoing. Readers can find all back issues of the Newsletter, from the time it was first published in 1979, on this CD-ROM.
For more information contact WHO at eha@who.ch or PAHO at disaster-publications@paho.org
This collection is available on-line at http://www.who.Int/eha/disasters/ or http://www.paho.org/disasters
Search the Virtual Health Library for Disasters using the new classification:
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Public health in disasters and emergencies: principles and guidelines.
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Emergency preparedness and response.
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Disaster mitigation.
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Human rights and humanitarian legislation.
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Health of refugees and the displaced.
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Environmental health and chemical substances.
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Communicable diseases.
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Parasitic and vector-borne diseases.
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Food and nutrition.
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Reproductive health, child health and immunization.
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Mental health.
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Management of humanitarian supplies and essential drugs.
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Management of the casualties of war.
(Disasters: Preparedness and Mitigation in the Americas, No. 83, April 2001)