The economic impact of natural disasters on health infrastructure

The Meeting on Disaster Mitigation with respect to Health Facilities and the Formulation of Guidelines for the Latin American and Caribbean Region will take place from 26 to 29 of February 1996 in Mexico City, at the request of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and as part of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. During the course of preparatory sessions for the mission, The Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC) was entrusted with the task of preparing a study on the economic impact of natural disasters on hospital facilities. Likewise, it was decide to include an analysis of both direct and indirect economic consequences, together with a description of the reconstruction processes undertaken in a number of selected hospitals, which the measures for mitigation the damage of future natural disasters provided for.