Zobrazenie zdroja stránky Complex emergencies

:Slovak term: [[Slovenský termín]]
# Complex emergencies are situations of disrupted livelihoods and threats to life produced by warfare, civil disturbance and large-scale movements of people, in which any emergency response has to be conducted in a difficult political and security environment.

==Explanation==
Complex emergencies combine internal conflict with large-scale displacements of people,
mass famine or food shortage, and fragile or failing economic, political, and social
institutions. Often, complex emergencies are also exacerbated by natural disasters.

==Example==
A combination of complex disasters and natural hazards (e.g. military and political
problems combined with severe winter weather, coastal storms and flooding, drought and a
cholera epidemic) was particularly devastating in the 1990s in such countries as Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Iraq, Myanmar, Peru and Somalia.

==References==
* WHO (2002). Environmental health in emergencies and disasters: a practical guide

==Links==
* [http://apps.who.int/thelexicon/ WHO — The Health and Environment Lexicon]
* [http://www.who.int/hac/en/ Health action in crisis]
* [http://www.who.int/csr/en/index.html Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response]

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