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Danish Red Cross COVID-19 preparedness profile (as of May 5, 2020) Risk & Hazards Pre-hospital care: Yes 1 INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index Health Centre(s): - Hazard & Lack coping Hospital(s): - Vulnerability Risk class Exposure capacity Higher Education: - 2.9 7.1 0.2 Low INFORM COVID-19 risk rank: 183 of 191 countries Programmes Highlighted INFORM COVID-19 sub-components Community-based Health & First Aid (CBHFA)17 Socio-Economic Vulnerability: 0.2 Is CBHFA active: Food Security: 1.4 Yes No CBHFA activities: Gender Based Violence (GBV): 0.7 - Movement (international & national): 8.8 No Health topics taught: - Behaviour (awareness & trust)): 2.7 Community Engagement & Accountability (CEA)18 Governance (effectiveness & corruption): 1.3 Access to healthcare: 1.1 HR Capacity: 3-Day Training/ToT Health context Structure: - Global Health Security Index:2 8 out of 195 No Programs: Global Health Security preparedness levels: - 14 Preventing pathogens: Most prepared Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) Early detection/reporting of epidemics: Most prepared Number of volunteers trained in: Basic Psychosocial support (PSS): 1,000 Responding & mitigating spread: More prepared Psychological First Aid (PFA): 1,000 Treat the sick & protect health workers: More prepared Number of highly skilled volunteers: Social Workers (0), Psychologist (0), Psychiatrist (0), Community Healthcare Commitments (HR, funding & norms): More prepared Workers (CHWs) (0) Risk/vulnerability to biological threats: Least at risk 29 current Psychosocial (PSS) activities: Restoring Family Links, Addressing basic needs for volunteers, Anti-stigma ReadyScore:3 - out of 100 activities, Awareness Campaigns, Caring for staff and volunteers, Centres or gathering points, Child friendly spaces, Community events, Cultural activities, GHS process engagement4, 5 Family friendly activities, Gender and diversity mainstreaming, Information activities, Lay counselling, Life skills activities, Long-term activities for those Joint External Evaluation (JEE): - at risk of mental health conditions, Parenting skills programmes, Peer support, Psychoeducation, Recreation and creativity activities, Recreational activities, National Action Plan for Health Security: - Psychological first aid, Self-care awareness, Self-expression groups / art groups, Sensitization activities, Sports and physical activities, Stress management Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA): Yes activities, Support groups, Volunteer support, Trainings Healthcare system capacity (per 1,000 population)8, 7 3 current Mental Health (MH) activities: Specialized psychological support, Training of community actors in basic 5.3 Hospital bed(s) (2020) psychological support, Training of health staff in basic psychological support 5 Physician(s) (2016) 20 MHPSS target populations: Adolescents, Children, Older persons, Families of missing persons, Family of 10 Nurse(s) and midwi(ves) (2016) persons with mental health conditions (including alcohol and substance abuse), Indigenous persons, Internally displaced persons, Migrants, Other community - Community healthcare worker(s) (-) helpers, Prisoners and/or their families, People affected by violence, People affected by war and armed conflict, People living with drug addictions, People RCRC Movement Presence living with mental health conditions, People who are homeless, People who are lonely, People with disabilities, Persons with physical health issues, Post-release IFRC Region:9, 10 Europe detainees, Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence IFRC CCST:9, 10 - Other programming19, 20, 6, 21, 22, 23 IFRC Country Office:9, 10 - People reached IFRC Status agreement:9, 10 - IFRC Bank account:9, 10 - Program: Active: Direct: Indirect: Corresponding language:9, 10 English Epidemic/Pandemic: No - - ICRC Presence:12 Yes CBS: No - - Health (all program): No - - Partner National Societies (financial support):6 WASH: No - - American Red Cross, Australian Red Cross, British Red Cross, The Canadian Red Cross Society, Finnish Red Cross, French Red Cross, German Red Cross, DRR: Yes - - Japanese Red Cross Society, Norwegian Red Cross, Swedish Red Cross, Swiss Red Cross Afghan Red Crescent, Armenian Red Cross Society, Bangladesh Social Inclusion: No - - Red Crescent Society, Belarus Red Cross, Egyptian Red Crescent Society, Red Cross Society of Georgia, Red Cross Society of Guinea, Hellenic Red Cross, Long-term programmes: Yes 82,000 - Iraqi Red Crescent Society, Jordan National Red Crescent Society, Kenya Red First Aid: No (0 volunteers trained) Cross Society, Lebanese Red Cross, Liberian Red Cross Society, Libyan Red Crescent, Malagasy Red Cross Society, Mali Red Cross, Myanmar Red Cross National Society capacity strenghtening and development Society, Malawi Red Cross Society, Mexican Red Cross, Nepal Red Cross Society, 24 Pakistan Red Crescent, The Palestine Red Crescent Society, Rwandan Red Cross, processes The Sudanese Red Crescent, South Sudan Red Cross, Syrian Arab Red Crescent, Togolese Red Cross, Turkish Red Crescent Society, Ukrainian Red Cross Society, OCAC - Phase 1 Assessment (2016) Yemen Red Crescent Society, Zimbabwe Red Cross Society About: Country profiles Demography The purpose of this document is to help outline National Society risk as well as capacities for preparedness, 7 Population: 5,523,095 containment, and mitigation of COVID-19. This document pulls existing IFRC and public information to inform about country-level risk and hazards, health context, Movement representation, National Society programs and Population over 65:7 20% services, and coordination mechanisms. Income level:7 High income INFORM and GHSI methodology and details on how to read the severity scales are available in the link below, in the links in the data source section. 7 Urban (percentage): 87% For more information on National Society capacity strengthening and development processes, please contact: • National Society Development (NSD) for Organisational Capacity Assessment and Certification (OCAC) IFRC Operations (last 5 years) and Branch Organizational Capacity Assessment (BOCA) • Disaster and Crisis Prevention, Response and Recovery (DCPRR) for National Society Preparedness DREF & Appeals11 for Effective Response (PER) and cash preparedness • Logistics team for Logistics assessments Epidemics Non-Epidemics Total Count 0 0 0 Data Sources CHF 0 0 0 1 INFORM COVID-19 Risk Index (v0.1.2) 2 Global Health Security Index (GHSI) (2019) 3 Prevent Epidemics ReadyScore (2019) All IFRC supported responses (last 5 yrs): 4 WHO Strategic Partnership for International Health Regulations (2005) and Health Security (2020) 5 Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) (2020) - 6 IFRC Federation-wide databank and reporting system (2018) 7 World Bank Open Data 8 Imperial College London (ICL) and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) 9 IFRC Disaster Law Database (IDRL) (2020) 10 IFRC National Society Directory (2018) Danish Red Cross 11 IFRC Go (2020) 12 International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (2020) 13, 9, 6 13 IFRC COVID-19 Government Actions (2020) Mandate and resources 14 IFRC MHPSS: Survey (2019) 15 Global Advisory Panel on Corporate Governance and Risk NS Auxiliary role recognized: - Management of Blood Services in Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Global Mapping - Red Cross / Red Crescent National Society involvement in country blood programs, 2018. IDRL Law/Mechanism: - 16 Business Continunity Planning/Medical capacity mapping (2020) 17 IFRC CBHFA: Survey (2019) Branches and warehouses: 220 18 IFRC Community Engagement & Accountability: Map (2019) 19 IFRC Community Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Program 20 IFRC Community-based Surveillance (2020) Staff (% accidental insurance): 791 (0%) 21 IFRC Global Safe Water Initiative (GWSI) Portal (2018) 22 IFRC Disaster Risk Reduction: Global mapping (2018) 23 IFRC Social Inclusion capacity mapping (2019) Volunteers (% a. insurance): 15,464 (0%) 24 IFRC National Society Development (2019) Youth (6-29 yrs) (% volunteers): - (-%) Found incomplete, incorrect, or out of date information? Ideas on how to improve? Please share your feedback. Continuity of care (MHPSS:14 MH and PSS support for Staff. MH and PSS support for Volunteers. Medical services15, 16.
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