Publications by authors named "John Prawira"
Building operational readiness for responding to emergencies in the WHO South-East Asia Region.
WHO South East Asia J Public Health
April 2020
The World Health Organization (WHO) has an essential role to play in supporting Member States to prepare for, respond to and recover from emergencies with public health consequences. Operational readiness for known and unknown hazards and emergencies requires a risk-informed and structured approach to building capacities within organizations such as WHO offices and national ministries of health. Under the flagship priority programme on emergency risk management of the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, a readiness training programme consisting of four modules was implemented during 2017-2018, involving staff from WHO country offices as well as from the regional office.
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- The WHO's emergency medical team mentorship and verification process ensures quality assurance for international EMTs deployed during medical emergencies by setting minimum standards.
- Organizations must undergo a rigorous peer review and a 2-day site visit to demonstrate compliance with technical and operational requirements for effective emergency response.
- The process takes 1 to 2 years and aims to support countries like Thailand, which has successfully completed it, as a model for strengthening emergency preparedness in the South-East Asia Region.
Background: As the global shift toward non-communicable diseases overlaps with the unfinished agenda of confronting infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries, epidemiological links across both burdens must be recognized. This study examined the non-communicable disease-infectious disease overlap in the specific comorbidity rates for key diseases in an occupational cohort in Papua, Indonesia.
Methods: Diagnosed cases of ischaemic heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes (types 1 and 2), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, cancer, HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria were extracted from 22,550 patient records (21,513 men, 1037 women) stored in identical electronic health information systems from two clinic sites in Papua, Indonesia.