Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Humanitarian Contexts

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Humanitarian Contexts
Author: Richard C. Carter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781853398841

The approach of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Humanitarian Contexts is straightforward and practical, with little theory - the focus being on improving professional practice in the midst of humanitarian suffering; written for those whose everyday work involves humanitarian response to WASH needs in emergencies and disasters.

Health in Humanitarian Emergencies

Health in Humanitarian Emergencies
Author: David Townes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1107062683

A comprehensive, best practices resource for public health and healthcare practitioners and students interested in humanitarian emergencies.

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies
Author: Chris Bobel
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1041
Release: 2020-07-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811506140

This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across the life course?” The chapters—diverse in content, form and perspective—establish Critical Menstruation Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.

Handbook of Global Health

Handbook of Global Health
Author: Ilona Kickbusch
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 2881
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9783030450083

Global health is a rapidly emerging discipline with a transformative potential for public policy and international development. Emphasizing transnational health issues, global health aims to improve health and achieve health equity for all people worldwide. Its multidisciplinary scope includes contributions from many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences, including clinical medicine, public health, social and behavioral sciences, environmental sciences, economics, public policy, law and ethics. This large reference offers up-to-date information and expertise across all aspects of global health and helps readers to achieve a truly multidisciplinary understanding of the topics, trends as well as the clinical, socioeconomic and environmental drivers impacting global health. As a fully comprehensive, state-of-the-art and continuously updated, living reference, the Handbook of Global Health is an important, dynamic resource to provide context for global health clinical care, organizational decision-making, and overall public policy on many levels. Health workers, physicians, economists, environmental and social scientists, trainees and medical students as well as professionals and practitioners will find this handbook of great value.

Bridging the Wash Humanitarian-Development Divide

Bridging the Wash Humanitarian-Development Divide
Author: Marielle Snel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781788531740

The authors discuss lessons learned across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East that will inspire humanitarian, development, and government professionals, in and outside the WASH sector, to work together to improve the long-term impact of sustainable WASH programmes in humanitarian contexts.

Emergency Sanitation

Emergency Sanitation
Author: Peter Harvey
Publisher: WEDC, Loughborough University
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1843800055

Includes statistics.

Hygiene Promotion

Hygiene Promotion
Author: Suzanne Ferron
Publisher: Practical Action Pub
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2007
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781853396410

This is a fully revised new edition of this acclaimed practical manual.Indispensable for fieldworkers on projects or programs aiming to reduce the incidence of water-and-sanitation-related diseases, this book will also be useful for other relief and development workers, particularly those working in the fields of community development, health, and engineering.The authors describe a wide range of approaches to hygiene promotion that can be used in different settings. Central to these approaches is a commitment to working in collaboration with people and encouraging them to take more control over the factors that influence their lives. The authors stress the need for a form of hygiene promotion that fosters capacity-building rather than the provision of information alone.The opening chapter of the manual introduces the reader to the context of emergency relief and development projects and provides insights into current hygiene promotion theory. The main body of the text then goes on to consider the four phases of the project cycle--assessment, planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation--each of which is assigned a chapter for discussion. These chapters draw together the experience of hygiene promotion fieldworkers in many emergency and rehabilitation, water, sanitation, and hygiene program undertaken by CARE and other agencies. The annex comprises other useful material including a series of concise "how-to" guides, pictures for use or adaptation in the field, information about hygiene-related diseases and how to prevent them, and an annotated bibliography.

Global Issues in Water, Sanitation, and Health

Global Issues in Water, Sanitation, and Health
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2009-10-25
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0309138728

As the human population grows-tripling in the past century while, simultaneously, quadrupling its demand for water-Earth's finite freshwater supplies are increasingly strained, and also increasingly contaminated by domestic, agricultural, and industrial wastes. Today, approximately one-third of the world's population lives in areas with scarce water resources. Nearly one billion people currently lack access to an adequate water supply, and more than twice as many lack access to basic sanitation services. It is projected that by 2025 water scarcity will affect nearly two-thirds of all people on the planet. Recognizing that water availability, water quality, and sanitation are fundamental issues underlying infectious disease emergence and spread, the Institute of Medicine held a two-day public workshop, summarized in this volume. Through invited presentations and discussions, participants explored global and local connections between water, sanitation, and health; the spectrum of water-related disease transmission processes as they inform intervention design; lessons learned from water-related disease outbreaks; vulnerabilities in water and sanitation infrastructure in both industrialized and developing countries; and opportunities to improve water and sanitation infrastructure so as to reduce the risk of water-related infectious disease.