Overall disaster management in the Caribbean from a health sector point of view

ABSTRACT

This paper identifies the main trends in overall disaster management in the Caribbean regional and national levels from a health sector perspective. It highlights the main reasons why and how the region movel from an "ad hoc" response which existed in the sixties, to an organized systems by the middle of the nineties. It also proposes some areas which will need special attention in order to improve regional and national overall disaster management in the future