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• Design Manual for Health Services Facilities in the Caribbean
• Emergency Care and Treatment (ECAT) in Disasters
• Establishing a Mass Casualty Management System
• Guidelines for Vulnerability Reduction in the Design of New Health Facilities
• Prehospital Trauma Care Systems
• Principles of Disaster Mitigation in Health Facilities
• Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters
• Hospitals Safe from Disasters (pamphlet)
• Safe Hospitals: A Collective Responsibility
• WHO/PAHO Guidelines for the Use of Foreign Field Hospitals
• Hospital Safety Index
  • Guide for Evaluators
  • Evaluation Forms for Safe Hospitals
• Disaster Mitigation for Health Facilities – Guidelines for Vulnerability Reduction in the Caribbean
• Wind Effects
  • Guides:
    • Structural Issues
    • Non-structural Issues
  • Presentations:
    • Structural Issues
    • Non-structural Issues
• Caribbean Wind Hazard Maps
  • Methodology used to produce the new Caribbean Basin Wind Hazard Maps
  • Maps containing predicted wind speeds for various return periods
  • Caribbean Application Document of ASCE-7
  • Case Study: Turn-key contracts for new hospital projects
• Reference Documents by Country
• Pan American Health Organization: Background Documents and Resolutions of the Directing Council
  • CSP27/12 Safe Hospitals: A Regional Initiative on Disaster Resilient Health Facilities
  • CSP27.R14 Safe Hospitals: A Regional Initiative on Disaster Resilient Health Facilities
  • CD45/27 Report on Reducing the impact of Disasters on Health Facilities
  • CD45/R8 Disaster Preparedness and Response