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Drug donations in acute emergencies: The Sri-Lankan Tsunami experience

Paul Gamelie Ashigbie
The Sri-Lankan Tsunami experience shows that World Health Organization Drug Donation Guidelines alone are not enough.

Introduction

The objective of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) Guidelines for Drug Donations (GDD) in acute humanitarian emergencies. To achieve this, the paper analyses the roles of the major [...]

GIS in Public Health

Geographical Information System (GIS) is a powerful computer-aided database management and mapping technology that uses for organizing and storing large amount of multi-purpose information. GIS provides an interface between the data and a map. For example by using GIS maps we can show visually the trends of disease or injuries in a particular geographical region, GIS [...]

Happiness Index, an indicator for well being

Are you happy? When do people feel happiness? If they don’t have anything to eat make them happy, or if their babies are dying from pneumonia is a happy situation. If they live under Bomb and there is no hope in their country makes them feel as developed and happy nation. Of course, normal human in [...]