DISASTER MEDICINE No. 4•2019

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Actual Issues at International Level in Disaster Medicine Sphere: According to Proceedings of Annual International Conferences “Humanitarian Partnership Week” and “Sendai 2015–2030” (2017–2019)

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Kipor G.V., Chubaiko V.G., Tkhokhova Z.M.

All-Russian Centre for Disaster Medicine “Zaschita“, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation

UDK 614.8.01

Pp. 56–60

Abstract. The progress and results of the discussion of topical international problems in disaster medicine at the annual international conferences “Humanitarian Partnership Week ” and “Sendai 2015–2030” in 2017–2019 are presented.

The author considers the issues of creating and of further improving the activities of international medical emergency response teams (MBCR), problems of humanitarian support for the population in the conditions of urbanization and providing humanitarian assistance in conflict situations.

The main attention is paid to the issues of military-civil cooperation in the liquidation of medical and sanitary consequences of emergency situations and local armed conflicts.

Key words: creation and development of international medical emergency response teams; emergency situations, local armed conflicts; military-civil cooperation; peculiarities of the work of the Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Actions within the Framework of Civil-Military Cooperation; problems of humanitarian support in the conditions of modern urbanization

For citation: Kipor G.V., Chubaiko V.G., Tkhokhova Z.M. Actual Issues at International Level in Disaster Medicine Sphere: According to Proceedings of Annual International Conferences “Humanitarian Partnership Week” and “Sendai 2015-2030” (2017–2019). Meditsina katastrof = Disaster Medicine. 2019; (4): 56–60 (In Russ.),https://doi.org/10.33266/2070-1004-2019-4-56-60

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The material was received 07.08.19; the article after peer review procedure 21.08.19; the Editorial Board accepts the article for publication 27.11.19