Public Health Emergency Management

Public Health Emergency Management Public Health Emergency Management Guidelines for Ethiopia 2012 Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Public Health Emergency Management Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research InstitutePublic Health Emergency Management Centre February 2012 Addis Ababa Ethiopiaublic Health Emergency Management Guidelines for Ethiopia Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute Public Health Emergency Management Centre i Table of Contents Table of Contents .. i Acronyms .. iii Acknowledgements .. v Foreword ..vii SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION .. 1 Reengineering the Process .. 2 Guiding principles .. 3 Multi-hazard approach .. 3 From risk assessment to recovery .. 3 Risk assessment and mitigation .. 3 International Health Regulations (IHR2005) .. 3 Purpose of this guideline .. 5 Scope and applicability of the guideline.

Periodic infectious disease outbreaks and recurrent natural disasters serve to remind the importance of the public health system which encompasses the government and private sector, academia, NGOs, associations and development partners as a whole. However, there is tremendous task to be addressed in order to narrow the gaps between these actors in

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