Crisis in Gaza: Projected Deaths due to Traumatic Injuries in the Rafah...
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Rafah traumatic injury deaths could be over 3,500 from May 20 to August 17, 2024, finds new Gaza Projections report from researchers at Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London.
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New Report from the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. The current Israel-Gaza war, which began on October 7, 2023, has had an immense humanitarian impact. This project aims to provide projections of excess mortality for different causes of excess mortality.
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Public Health in Humanitarian Crises 1, introduces discussions about the public health approach to problems experienced by people affected by disasters, both natural and related to conflict. The course discusses the many changes which occur in people’s lives when they are uprooted by a disaster, ranging from changes in disease patterns, access to health care, livelihoods, shelter, sanitary conditions, nutritional status, etceteras....
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Public Health in Humanitarian Crises 2, addresses public health issues of people affected by disasters, both natural or conflict-related. It discusses the many changes that occur in people’s lives when they are uprooted by a disaster, such as when is an epidemic a public health emergency; what do we mean with the humanitarian development nexus; what are the basics of disaster epidemiology and surveillance; humanitarian principles;...
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At a moment when the numbers of people fleeing their countries are at the highest level ever recorded, Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health/Bloomberg School of Public Health partnerned with The Stoop and the Enoch Pratt Free Library for this special evening of stories
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