ICN Congress Update
The 24th ICN Quadrennial Congress is over, and I meanwhile have successfully crossed the euro-african holiday traffic and safely returned to Sweden (after all, a bit disappointed again about the attitude and behaviour of my german fellow countrymen, though).
Special regards here to the two colleagues who shared the same talk session at the congress:
L. Little (Canada)
Protecting The Public: Effective Disaster Deployment of Nurses
and
R. Chantra (Thailand)
A development of extra-curriculum for nursing competencies in the preparation for tsunami disaster for nursing students
I would be glad if you could share your slides, you can find mine here:
http://pub.nursix.org/sahana/pub/presentation.pdf
Together, our presentations treated the full range from capacity building over contingency planning to emergency information management, complementary in a way that in my presentation I could easily pick up some aspects from the previous speakers.
Sahana @ ICN Congress 2009
I will give a talk on
“Implementation of Health Management Features in the Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System”
at the 24th Quadrennial Congress of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) in Durban/South Africa, which takes place June 27th to July 4th, 2009.
The International Council of Nurses is a federation of national nurses’ associations (NNAs), representing millions of nurses in more than 128 countries – and it is the world’s widest reaching international organisation for health professionals.
Venue data:
Session C.645 Pandemics/Disasters
02/07/2009, 14:30-15:50 (Presentation start at 15:30)
Hall 2D
International Convention Centre
45 Ordnance Road, Durban/South Africa
www.icc.co.za
More information about the congress can be found at: www.icn.ch/congress2009/index.htm
Sahana @ ICN Congress 2009
My abstract on
“Implementation of Health Management Features into the Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System”
has been accepted for a presentation at the 24th Quadrennial Congress of the International Council of
Nurses (ICN) in Durban/South Africa, June 27th to July 4th, 2009.
The International Council of Nurses is a federation of national nurses’ associations (NNAs), representing millions of nurses in more than 128 countries – and it is the world’s widest reaching international organisation for health professionals.
Background
Sahana is a collection of web based disaster management software applications that provides solutions to large-scale humanitarian problems with regard to coordination and collaboration of field workers and relief organizations in a disaster situation and its aftermath. The Sahana project has been initiated in Sri Lanka during the 2004 Tsunami disaster, and since then it was successfully deployed in several disaster situations around the world, lately in the China Earthquake Disaster of May, 2008.Sahana is a free and open source software project, thus it is available free of charge and without narrowing copyright strings, and can easily be customized to the particular situation.
Presentation objectives
Sahana is a valuable technology in humanitarian action, and an excellent platform for health management in large-scale disaster situations as well.Together with other contributors, I have taken responsibility to implement basic health management features to the Sahana system, addressing the following issues:
- Prioritizing of health care services by means of information on the disaster-affected population, demographic and health data as well as information on local health care resources
- Support situation awareness by monitoring of Mortality Rates (CMR,U5MR) and scheduled health status reports
- Coordination and monitoring of measures for prevention, surveillance and control of communicable diseases
- Coordination and monitoring of measures to enable access on safe water and food, sanitation and basic health services
In the context of free software development, I want to encourage nurses and nurses’ organizations worldwide to contribute their knowledge to the further development of this software
Venue data:
Session C.645 Pandemics/Disasters
02/07/2009, 14:30-15:50 (Presentation start at 15:30)
Hall 2D
International Convention Centre
45 Ordnance Road, Durban/South Africa
www.icc.co.za
More information about the congress can be found at:
