People affected by conflict 2013 : humanitarian needs in numbers

People affected by conflict 2013 : humanitarian needs in numbers [electronic resource] - Brussels : Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), 2013 - 37 p.

SIP1403 The Complex Emergency Database (CE-DAT) was launched within the SMART initiative and has been developed and is
run by CRED at the Catholic University of Louvain. It is an international initiative to monitor and evaluate the health status
of populations affected by complex emergencies. The database focuses on mortality and acute malnutrition – the most
commonly used public health indicators of the severity of a humanitarian crisis. CE-DAT currently contains more than 3,300
epidemiological surveys from 51 countries.


population--health--war victims--armed conflicts
humanitarian aid--decisionmaking--statistics--refugees
children--diseases--medicine--developing countries--vaccine

disasters