A Risk Assessment Tool for the Health Sector in Africa: Filling the gaps in Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Risk Management

Abstract

“Understanding the risk” is one of the four priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Management. It is also one of the critical steps for effective risk reduction and disaster preparedness programs. In the health sector, the paradigm of primary prevention of disease outbreaks is intrinsically underpinned by the rational of the identification of the threats to public health and evaluation of risk, based on the prevalent hazards, the vulnerability