1.Is the response over? The transition from response to recovery in the health sector post-Typhoon Haiyan
Allison Gocotano ; Lester Sam Geroy ; Ma Rowena Alcido ; Miguel Manuel Dorotan ; Gloria Balboa ; Julie Lyn Hall
Western Pacific Surveillance and Response 2015;6(Suppl 1):5-9
During the overlap period between response and recovery activities, the authors were all working in the health sector at the national level supporting coordination and strategic planning with government and partners and at the field level implementing response activities and revisiting the medium- and long-term programming approach to recovery. It is from this perspective, combined with data from existing documents such as plans, reports and policies, that we highlight the need to define a period of transition from response to recovery of the health sector as it may have important implications on the health system functioning as a whole.
2.Can you help me write my story? The institutional affiliations of authors of international journal articles on post-disaster health response
Allison Gocotano ; Megan Counahan ; Vicente Belizario ; Kenneth Hartigan-Go ; Gloria Balboa ; Marilyn Go ; Manuel Dayrit ; Julie Lyn Hall
Western Pacific Surveillance and Response 2015;6(Suppl 1):10-14
The objective of this paper was to investigate who had published papers about emergencies and disasters (events) in the last five years. This was not intended to be a full systematic review, rather an assessment of the location of authors of papers published on these events.