Directory
Subtitle: agencies that provide health assistance after natural disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean
By: [compiled under PAHO contract no. APO-90640 by INTERTECT].
Contributors: INTERTECT (Firm); Pan American Sanitary Bureau.
Publisher: Pan American Health Organization, Regional Office of the World Health Organization
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Disaster relief -- Directories; Disasters.; Emergency Medical Services -- directories.; Emergency medical services -- Directories
Other titles: Agencies that provide health assistance after natural disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Description: Government, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental agencies that meet four criteria, i.e., provide substantial aid, operate in Latin America and/or the Caribbean area, provide assistance in the health sector, and submit to guidelines set up by the affected country.  Sources of information were questionnaires and interviews collected between "June and February, 1984."  Alphabetical arrangement by type of agency.  Entries include contact information, information regarding donor agency capabilities and limitations, and information regarding requesting agency responsibilities.  Miscellaneous appendixes.
Notes: Seal of Pan American Sanitary Bureau on t.p.

"Compilation and publication of this directory were made possible by financial support of the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID grant no. PDC-0000-G-IN-2111-00)"--T.p. verso.