Section One Focus on public health

Chapter 1 Public health – has it fallen off the map?
Box 1.1 La Niña storms savage Venezuela
Box 1.2 Nicaragua needs a break
Box 1.3 Minamata – poisonous reminder of the past
Box 1.4 Orissa – from cyclone to suicide
Box 1.5 Turkish earthquakes leave long-term legacy

Chapter 2 Assessing and targeting public health priorities
Box 2.1 Volunteers vital for meningitis vaccination
Box 2.2 SUMA in East Timor
Box 2.3 Dengue fever contained by cooperation in Cambodia
Box 2.4 Consigning polio to the grave

Chapter 3 AIDS in Africa: no longer business as usual
Box 3.1 Save the orphans
Box 3.2 Herbal healers and HIV
Box 3.3 Generation of hope

Chapter 4 North Korea's public health pays the price of isolation
Box 4.1 Juche – ideological cornerstone
Box 4.2 "Nothing prepares you for North Korea"
Box 4.3 'Outing and shouting': NGO departures underscore problems
Box 4.4 Chronology of events, 1950-2000

Chapter 5 Chernobyl: a chronic disaster
Box 5.1 Thyroid gland cancer: who cares?
Box 5.2 Red Cross volunteers key to psychosocial recovery
Box 5.3 International assistance programmes for Chernobyl
Box 5.4 Flaws at Tokai-mura look familiar

Chapter 6 Kosovo – the humanitarian Klondike
Box 6.1 Ten tons of darkness
Box 6.2 Military and private sector challenge established aid providers
Box 6.3 News you can use
Box 6.4 Returning to normal: the role of radio in traumatized societies

 

Section Two Tracking the system

Chapter 7 Surprise upturn in global aid
Box 7.1 Advance funding and contingency planning save lives
Box 7.2 A climate of debt
Box 7.3 Aid overshadowed by trade and debt

Chapter 8 Towards an international disaster response law
Box 8.1 Sovereignty and assistance – room for reconciliation?
Box 8.2 IDL – precedents for an operational approach
Box 8.3 Sphere's Minimum Standards – customary international law in the making?
Box 8.4 IDL – areas in need of further legal development

Chapter 9 Disaster data: key to improved response
This chapter presents data from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (Belgium) and the US Committee for Refugees, among others. Statistics on natural and man-made disasters, refugees and IDPs, emergency relief and food aid are shown in 20 tables.

Chapter 10 Years of reponse to disasters
This chapter gives an idea of International Federation operations over the years since its founding in 1919 and looks at two initiatives to improve its response (ARCHI 2010 and the ProVention Consortium).

Chapter 11 The global reach
Contact details of the 176 national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies members of the International Federation.

Chapter 12 Wherever needs exist
Contact details of International Federation country and regional offices around the world.