Public Health Response in Health Crisis and Disasters Flashcards
What are the uses of a needs assessment?
- inform strategic, operation & response decisions
- influence other’s decisions
- justify operational decisions & appeals
What are the phases of the needs assessment framework?
- Phase 0: preparedness
- disaster
- Phase 1 (first 3 days): initial assessment + situation analysis
- Phase 2 (first 2 weeks): MIRA
- Phase 3 (second 2 weeks): cluster/sector specific assessments
- Phase 4 (onwards): post disaster needs assessments, cluster/sector survey, etc
What do we need to know about coordinated needs assessment framework?
What factors will infleunce level of measurement?
- country
- provine
- district
- sub district
- village/community/camp
- affected group
- vulnerable groups
- household
- individual
What challenges do humanitarians face hwen identifying priorities?
- time pressure
- complexity
- costly decisions
- need for transparency
- life implications
- information overload
- incomplete/inaccurate data
- ambiguous data
- trust issues
What are strucutred analytical techniques (SATs)?
mechanism by which internal thought processes are externalised in a systematic & transparent manner so they can be shared, built on & easily critiqued by others
What are 2 key frameworks in …?
- Health system building blocks
- Transition frameworks
How are systems often categorized?
- Has structure
- has interconnectivity
- has behaviour
What is a system?
Set of interacting or interdependent components forming an integrated whole
What is a health system?
all organisations, ppl & actions whose primary intent is to improve health
What is missing from the WHO building blocks?
the patient
How does humanitarian aid affect service delivery?
What are fragile states?
countries affected by conflict, emerging from conflict or otherwise lacking the will or capacity to implement pro-poor policies
What is the problem with the definition of fragile states?
no internationally agreed list or definition
What are the fragile states index (FSI) indicators?
- Social indicators
- Economic indicators
- Political & military indicators
What are the social indicators of FSI?
- demographic pressures
- refugees or IDPs
- Group grievance
- Human flight
What are the economic indicators of FSI?
- Uneven economic development
- Economic decline
What are the political & military indicators of FSI?
- Legitimacy of the state
- Public services
- Human rights & rule of law
- Security apparatus
- Factionalized elites
- External intervention
What is the Multi-cluster/sector initial rapid assessment (MIRA)?
joint needs assessment tool that can be used in sudden onset emergencies
What are biases?
- Normal processes, designed to make decisions quickly
- Unconcious, automatic & uncontrollable
What are cognitive biases?
Inherent thinking errors caused by our simplified information selection & processing strategies
What are problems with cognitive biases?
- quick to form &highly resistant to change
- Information is made to fit into existing framework, dont see new patterns
- intial, incorrect perceptions persist after better information becomes available. we ignore tho
What or who are people in need?
members whose:
- physical security, basic rights, dignity, living conditions are threatened/disrupted AND
- current level of access to basic services, goods & social protection is inadeuqate to re-establish normal living conditions