Strengthening Community Based Health Care Provision Capacity is Critical for Emergency Preparedness – Lessons from Iraq and Uganda
Journal Title: Emergency Medicine – Open Journal - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Women, children and the poor constitute the most vulnerable groups in emergencies. Continuity of delivery of services at the community level is critical in preventing morbidity and mortality. Insecurity and other disasters reduce access to public health services. Conventional emergency preparedness emphasizes community capacity development after a disaster to build resilience and thereby mitigate against effects of a similar occurrence in the future. Lessons from Iraq and Uganda seem to indicate that this should be addressed as part of preparedness. Our review of the context in two completely different settings supports this view. We present here, work undertaken in Iraq to strengthen community level Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) provision before the insecurity following the invasion by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and experiences from Northern Uganda during the insecurity caused by the Lord’s Resistance Army and Ebola Disease outbreaks.
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Rumishael Shoo
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- DOI 10.17140/ EMOJ-1-104
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