Health response to the earthquake in Haiti - January 2010: lessons to be learned for the next massive sudden-onset disaster

  Available online: http://new.paho.org/disasters/dmdocuments/HealthResponseHaitiEarthq.pdf

This book presents lessons to be learned from Haiti with the aim of improving the health sector’s response in major, sudden-onset disasters in the future. It also identifies opportunities provided by the disaster for making significant changes in health services in Haiti. One of the key lessons of the Haiti tragedy is that coordination can only be effective where national authorities are equipped to assume leadership and establish relief and recovery priorities.

Language(s): English

Tags: Natural hazards ; Example/ Good practice ; Earthquake ; Human health ; Case/ Case study ; Haiti Add tag