Disaster Medicine, Telemedicine and Integrated Vector Control: United Nation’s Space Technology Program for Disaster Management

UN-SPIDER-United Nations platform for space-based information for disaster management
and emergency response is a new programme established as per UN’s resolution
61/110.UN-SPIDER is being implemented as an open network of providers of space-based
solutions to support disaster management activities. Besides Vienna, the programme also has
an office in Bonn, Germany and Beijing, China. In recent years the program have contributed
to making space technologies available for humanitarian and emergency response,
UN-SPIDER is the first to focus on the need to ensure access to and use of such solutions
during all phases of the disaster management cycle, including the risk reduction phase, which
significantly contributed for reducing the loss of lives and property. The UN-SPIDER
programme is achieving this by being a gateway to space information for disaster
management support, by serving as a bridge to connect the disaster management and space
communities and by being a facilitator of capacity-building and institutional strengthening, in
particular for developing countries. This paper communicates about emergency, disaster
medicine, telemedicine and vector-borne disease management for prevention and control of
harmful health effects due to disasters and optimizing benefits to both human health and the
environment