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Training medical personnel: HELP and SOS courses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Pierre Perrin
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The early 1980s marked a turning point for humanitarian aid. During those years most of the major emergency relief agencies became aware that steps were needed to heighten the efficiency of their assistance to disaster victims.

New policies were therefore introduced to:

• promote preventive measures,

• codify assessment methods,

• standardize medicines and equipment,

• rationalize intervention criteria, and

• improve coordination among humanitarian organizations.

Type
Special Health Protection and Medical Assistance in Disaster Situations
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 31 , Special Issue 284: Health Protection and Medical Assistance in Disaster Situations , October 1991 , pp. 505 - 512
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1991

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References

1 Health Emergencies in Large Populations.

2 The course is taught on an interactive basis, i.e. with a high level of student participation.

3 On average 70 applications yearly in the first four years.

4 Salud en Operaciones de Socorro.

5 WHO regional office for the Americas.

6 Santé dans les Opérations de Secours.

7 For the first time there were more female than male participants in the 1991 HELP course.

8 More nursing staff than doctors attended the 1991 HELP course.