Public health risk assessment and interventions

The purpose of this public health risk assessment is to provide health professionals in United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations, international and local organizations, donor agencies and local authorities, who are currently working with populations affected by the emergency in the Horn of Africa, with up-to-date technical guidance on the major public health threats faced by the populations affected by the drought and famine conditions in the sub-region. This assessment of disease risk on the affected HoA populations and recommended public health interventions has focused on the impact of malnutrition against the national disease profiles, mindful that specific national risks may be exported to camps in neighbouring countries and this crisis will be long term. http://www.who.int/diseasecontrol_emergencies/publications/who_hse_gar_dce_2011_3.pdf