Should disaster strike... Health in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

The document lists WHO’s programmes and activities for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. Contents: Disaster myths and realities - Interview with Hiroshi Nakajima, M.D., Ph.D. - Natural disasters from Pompeii to Krakatoa - Natural disasters in our time - Man-Made disasters - What everyone should know about disasters - How children perceive disasters - Disasters and response - Economics of disaster - Opportunities and challenges in natural disaster reduction - Health and natural disaster reduction - Disaster preparedness in health - How preparedness works: three scenarios drawn from the field - WHO’s role in the international decade for natural disaster reduction - Technology’s role in disaster preparedness - WHO’s emergency kit - A WHO preparedness checklist - Thinking the unthinkable.