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Keywords
- Disaster Relief
- Severe Acute Malnutrition
- Swine Influenza Virus
- Isoniazid Preventive Therapy
- Southern African Development Community
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An asterisk (*) refers to this term in Part I, the Dictionary
A
- AAA:
-
*Accra Agenda for Action
- AAH:
-
Action Against Hunger
- AAM:
-
Air-to-air *missile
- AB:
-
*Atom bomb, *atomic bomb
- ABC:
-
Airway, breathing, circulation (emergency medicine)
Atomic, biological, chemical (weapons)
- ABM:
-
*Antiballistic missile
- ABU:
-
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
- AC:
-
Arctic Council
- ACC:
-
Administrative Committee on Coordination (United Nations)
- ACF:
-
Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger: AAH)
- ACGHST:
-
African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation
- ACHPR:
-
African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- ACLS:
-
*Advanced cardiac life support
- ACORD:
-
Agency for Cooperation and Research in Development
- ACS:
-
*American College of Surgeons
- ACSM:
-
Advocacy, communication and social mobilization
- ACT:
-
Action by Churches Together
- ACTED:
-
Artemisinin-based combination therapy (against malaria)
Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development
- ACUNS:
-
*Academic Council on the United Nations System
- ADB:
-
African Development Bank
- AsDB:
-
Asian Development Bank
- ADI:
-
Acceptable daily intake (of toxic substance)
- ADP:
-
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (AIT)
- ADRA:
-
Adventist Development and Relief Agency
- AERE:
-
Atomic Energy Research Establishment (UK – Harwell)
- AEROSAT:
-
International Aeronautic Satellite Programme
- AFB:
-
Acid-fast bacilli
- AFP:
-
Agence France Presse
- AFRO:
-
Regional Office for Africa (WHO)
- AFY:
-
Advocates for Youth
- AGBU:
-
Armenian General Benevolent Union
- AGFUND:
-
Arab Gulf Fund for United Nations Development
- AGM:
-
Air-to-ground *missile
- A(H1N1):
-
Porcine influenza virus strain
*Swine influenza virus pandemic 2009
- AHCO:
-
AIDS Healthcare Organization
- AHH:
-
Arbeitsstab Humanitäre Hilfe (Germany)
- AHPSR:
-
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (WHO)
- AI:
-
*Amnesty International
- AID:
-
United States Agency for International Development (also USAID)
- AIDES:
-
Italian association for health development
- *AIDS/Aids:
-
*Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (also HIV/AIDS)
- AIFOMD:
-
Association Internationale de Formateurs en Objectifs du Millénaire pour le Développement / IAMDGT
- AIS:
-
Abbreviated injury scale
- AIT:
-
Asian Institute of Technology
- AIUTA:
-
Association Internationale des Universités du Troisième Age
- AKF:
-
*Aga Khan Foundation
- *ALARA:
-
*As low as reasonably achievable (radiation dose)
- ALDHU:
-
Latin American Human Rights Association
- ALITE:
-
Augmented Logistics Intervention Team (WFP)
- *ALS:
-
*Advanced life support (anaesthesia, emergency)
- AM:
-
Transmission through amplitude modulation
- AMA:
-
American Medical Association
- AMAP:
-
Arctic Monitoring Assessment Programme
- AMDF:
-
AIDS-adjusted PMDF
- AMELISAP:
-
Association des Médecins Libéraux Sapeurs Pompiers
- AMI:
-
Acute myocardial infarction
- AMP:
-
Agence de Médecine Préventive
- AMPATH:
-
Academic Model for Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS
- AmRC/ARC:
-
American Red Cross
- *AMRO:
-
Regional Office for the Americas (WHO)
- AMSAT:
-
Amateur satellite
- AMVER:
-
Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue
- ANC:
-
Antenatal care
African National Congress (South Africa)
- AP:
-
Associated Press
- *APACHE:
-
*Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation
- APCDM:
-
*Asia-Pacific Conference on Disaster Medicine
- API:
-
Active pharmaceutical ingredient
- APM:
-
Asociaciòn Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Association of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo – Argentina)
- APOC:
-
African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (WHO)
- APPS:
-
African Partnership for Public Health Safety
- APT:
-
*Association for the Prevention of Torture
- APU:
-
*Auxiliary power unit
- ARABSAT:
-
Arab Satellite Communications Organization
- ARC:
-
American Refugee Committee
- ARCDM:
-
All-Russian Centre for Disaster Medicine *Zaschita
- ARD:
-
*Acute respiratory disease (or distress)
- ARI:
-
Annual risk of infection
- ARPCT:
-
Alliance for Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism
- ARSI:
-
*Association of Rural Surgeons of India
- ART:
-
Antiretroviral therapy
- ARV:
-
Antiretrovirus
- ASAFED:
-
African Association of Education for Development
- ASAP:
-
As soon as possible
- ASEAN:
-
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
- ASH:
-
Action on Smoking and Health
- ASI:
-
Anti-Slavery International
- ATA:
-
Actual time of arrival
- ATD:
-
Actual time of departure
- ATLS:
-
*Advanced trauma life support
- ATOP:
-
*Association for Trauma Outreach and Prevention
- ATTAC:
-
*Attac. (French): Association pour une Taxation des Transactions financières pour l’Aide aux Citoyens
- ATWC:
-
Alaska *Tsunami Warning Center
- AU:
-
African Union (previously OAU: Organization of African Unity)
- AVPU:
-
*Awake, verbal response, pain response, unresponsive
- AVSI:
-
Association of Volunteers in International Service
- AWACS:
-
Airborne Warning and Control System
- AWRE:
-
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment
B
- BAL:
-
British anti-lewisite
- BBC:
-
British Broadcasting Corporation
- *BCG:
-
*Bacille Calmette-Guérin (anti-TB vaccine)
- BCT:
-
(WHO Department of) Blood Safety and Clinical Technology
- BDP:
-
Bureau for Development Policy (UNDP)
- BDS:
-
*Bradford Disaster Scale
- BENELUX:
-
Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg
- BHR:
-
Bureau for Humanitarian Response (US-OFDA)
- *BLEVE:
-
*Boiling liquid expanded vapour explosion
- BLS:
-
*Basic life support
- BMA:
-
British Medical Association
- BMI:
-
Body mass index
- BMR:
-
*Basal metabolic rate
- BMS:
-
Breast milk substitute
- BOD:
-
*Burden of disease
- BP:
-
Medicine: Blood pressure
Industry: British Petroleum
- *Bq:
-
*Becquerel (unit of nuclear activity that has replaced the curie)
- BRICS:
-
Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (major emerging countries)
- *BSA:
-
*Body surface area (of burn injury)
- BSE:
-
*Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease)
- BTS:
-
*Blood transfusion service
- BW:
-
*Biological warfare/biological weapon(s)
- BWC:
-
*Biological Weapons Convention
C
- °C:
-
Celsius (degree of heat; has replaced the centigrade)
- C3 :
-
Command, control and communications
- CAD:
-
Coronary artery disease
- CAF:
-
Cost and freight
- CAFOD:
-
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development
- cal:
-
Calorie (unit of heat)
- CALD:
-
Culturally and linguistically diverse
- CARE:
-
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere
- CARICOM:
-
Caribbean Community and Common Market
- *CARITAS:
-
*International Confederation of Catholic Organizations for Charitable and Social Action
- CARTA:
-
Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa
- CAS:
-
Collision avoidance system
- CASs:
-
Country assistance strategies
- CASA:
-
Coordinating Action on Small Arms
- CAT:
-
*Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- CATW:
-
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
- CBC:
-
Community-based care
- CBD:
-
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- CBJO:
-
Coordinating Board of Jewish Organizations
- CBO:
-
Community-based organization
- CBRN:
-
Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, (non-conventional weapons)
- cc:
-
Cubic centimetre
- CC:
-
Corps Consulaire/Consular Corps
- CCCF:
-
Canadian Child Care Federation (FCSGE)
- CCD:
-
Convention to Combat Desertification (UN)
- CCF:
-
Christian Children’s Fund
- CCIA:
-
Commission of the Churches on International Affairs
- CCS:
-
*Casualty Clearing Station
Country Cooperation Strategy (WHO)
- CCW:
-
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects
- CD:
-
Conference on Disarmament
Corps Diplomatique/Diplomatic Corps
- CDC:
-
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
- CDCIR:
-
Community Documentation Centre on Industrial Risk
- CDE:
-
Centre International de l’Enfance (ICC, Paris)
- CE:
-
Council of Europe/Conseil de l’Europe
- CECP:
-
Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy
- CEDAW:
-
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
- CEF:
-
Central Emergency Response Fund
- CEMD:
-
Confidential enquiry into maternal deaths
- CEMEC:
-
*European Centre for Disaster Medicine/Centro Europeo per la Medicina delle Catastrofi
- CEPREDENAC:
-
Centro de Prevenciòn para Desastres Naturales en America Central
- CERD:
-
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UN)
- CERF:
-
Central Emergency Response Fund
- CERN:
-
Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire–European Centre for Nuclear Research
- CESCR:
-
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (UN)
- CETIM:
-
*Centre Europe – Tiers Monde
- CFC:
-
*Chemistry: chlorofluorocarbons
UN: Common Fund for Commodities
- CFR:
-
Case fatality rate
- CFS:
-
Committee on World Food Security
- CFSAM:
-
Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission (WFP-FAO)
- CGF:
-
Calouste *Gulbenkian Foundation
- CHAP:
-
Common Humanitarian Action Plan
Consolidated Humanitarian Assistance Programme
- CHD:
-
Child Health and Development (Division of WHO)
- CHF:
-
Canadian Hunger Foundation
- CHH:
-
Child-headed household
- CHOICE-WHO:
-
CHOosing Interventions that are Cost Effective-WHO
- CHP:
-
Centre for Humanitarian Psychology
- CHW:
-
*Community health worker
- CI:
-
*Caritas Internationalis (CARITAS)
Conservation International
- CIA:
-
Central Intelligence Agency (USA)
- CICARWS:
-
Commission on Inter-Church Aid, Refugee and World Service
- CICP:
-
Centre for International Crime Prevention
- CICR/ICRC:
-
*Comité International de la Croix-Rouge – International Committee of the Red Cross
- CICRED:
-
Committee for International Cooperation in National Research in Demography
- CIDA:
-
*Canadian International Development Agency
- CIHC:
-
Center for International Health and Cooperation
- CIHR:
-
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- CIGLOB:
-
International Center for Globalization and Development
- CIF:
-
Cost, insurance and freight
- CILSS:
-
Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the *Sahel
- CIM:
-
Committee for International *Migration
- CIMIC:
-
Civilian-military cooperation
- CINDI:
-
Children in Distress International
- CIOMS:
-
Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences
- CIPIH:
-
Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (WHO)
- CISFAM:
-
Consolidated Information System for *Famine Management in Africa
- CISP:
-
Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli
- CISR:
-
Center for International Stabilization and Recovery (of *landmines)
- CITES:
-
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
- CIVICUS:
-
World Alliance for Citizen Participation
- CLAS:
-
Culturally and linguistically appropriate health services
- cm:
-
Centimetre
- CMA:
-
*Cranfield Mine Action Canadian Medical Association
- CMH:
-
Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (WHO)
- CMI:
-
Crop moisture index
- CMR:
-
Crude mortality rate
- CND:
-
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
- CNN:
-
Cable News Network
- CNS:
-
Central nervous system
- CO2 :
-
*Carbon dioxide
- COC:
-
Combined oral contraceptive
- COD:
-
Cash on delivery
- COHRED:
-
*Council on Health Research for Development
- COMPAS:
-
Commodity Movement Processing and Analysis System (WFP)
- COMSAT:
-
Communications Satellite Corporation
- CONGO:
-
Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council
- COPD:
-
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- COR UNUM:
-
Coordination of Roman Catholic Relief Agencies
- COSECSA:
-
College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa
- COSME:
-
Operational Coordination of Medical Emergencies Surveillance (Italy)
- COVAW:
-
Coalition on *Violence Against Women
- CPI/TI:
-
*Corruption Perceptions Index of Transparency International
- CpiE:
-
Child Protection in Emergencies
- CPR:
-
*Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- CR (E):
-
Casualty rate (estimation)
- CRC:
-
Committee on the Rights of the Child
- *CRED:
-
*Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (Belgium)
- CRS:
-
Catholic Relief Services
- CSB:
-
*Corn-soya blend
- CSD:
-
Commission on *Sustainable Development
- CSIRO:
-
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia)
- CSM:
-
*Corn-soya milk
- CSO:
-
Civil Service Organization
- CSOPP:
-
Civil Society Organizations and Participation Programme (UNDP)
- CSOU:
-
*Civil Society and Outreach Unit (UN-DSPD)
- CSR:
-
Corporate social responsibility
- CSW:
-
Commercial sex worker
- CTBT:
-
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
- CTBTO:
-
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban-Treaty Organization
- CTS:
-
Communications Technology Satellite
- CTV:
-
Centre for Torture Victims (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
- CUI:
-
*Chernobyl Union International
- CUSO:
-
Canadian University Services Overseas
- CVA:
-
*Cerebrovascular accident
- CVD:
-
Cardiovascular disease
- CVM:
-
Complex of vitamins and minerals
- CW:
-
*Chemical warfare/chemical weapon
- CWC:
-
*Chemical Weapons Convention
- CWGL:
-
Center for Women’s Global Leadership
- CWS:
-
Church World Service
D
- DAC:
-
Development Assistance Committee (OECD)
- DALE:
-
*Disability-adjusted life expectancy
- DALY(s):
-
*Disability-adjusted life year(s)
- DANIDA:
-
Danish International Development Agency
- DARA:
-
*Development Assistance Research Associates
- DART:
-
Disaster Assistance Response Team (US/AID and Canada)
- DAW:
-
Division for the Advancement of Women (UN)
- DBS:
-
Direct broadcast satellite
- DCCP:
-
Disaster critical control point
- DCI:
-
Defence of Children International/DEI: Défense des Enfants International
- DCF:
-
Development Cooperation Forum
- DDA:
-
Department of Disarmament Affairs (UN)
- DDD:
-
Direct distance dialling
- DDR:
-
Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration
- DDT:
-
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (insecticide)
- DDW:
-
Das Diakonische Werk – German church service
- DECAF:
-
*Democratic Control of Armed Forces/Geneva
- DECIPHer:
-
Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement
- DELNET:
-
Development local network (*ILO)
- DESA:
-
Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN)
- DEW:
-
Distant Early Warning (military radar network)
- DFCM:
-
*Dried full-cream milk
- DFID:
-
Department for Foreign International Development (UK)
- DHA:
-
*UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs (see OCHA)
- DHD:
-
*Disaster health diplomacy
- DHS:
-
Demographic and health surveys
- DIANE:
-
Direct Information Access Network for Europe
- *DNA:
-
*Deoxyribonucleic acid
- DNDi:
-
*Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative
- DNR:
-
Do not resuscitate
- DOA/d.o.a.:
-
Dead on arrival
- DoC:
-
Declaration of commitment
- DOC:
-
Direct operating costs
- DoCip:
-
Documentation Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Research and Information
- DOTS:
-
Directly observed treatment short course (for TB, WHO)
- DP:
-
Displaced person(s)
- DPA:
-
Department of Political Affairs (UN)
- DPI:
-
Department of Public Information/UN
Disabled Peoples’ International
- DPKO:
-
*UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations
- DPLU:
-
Disaster Prevention and Limitation Unit (*Bradford University, UK)
- DPT:
-
*Diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (vaccine)
- DRC:
-
Danish Refugee Council
- DRK:
-
Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (German Red Cross)
- DRS:
-
Drug resistance surveillance (or survey)
- DRSE:
-
Drug-related side effects
- DSA:
-
Daily subsistence allowance
- DSM:
-
*Dried skim milk
- DSPD:
-
Division of Social Policy and Development (UN-DESA)
- DWH:
-
Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (German hunger aid)
- DWM:
-
*Dried whole milk
E
- EAC:
-
East African Community
- EAFORD:
-
International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
- EBM:
-
Evidence-based medicine
- EBU/UER:
-
European Broadcasting Union/Union Européenne de Radiodiffusion
- EDM:
-
(WHO Department of) Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy
- EC:
-
European Commission
- ECA:
-
Economic Commission for Africa
- ECB:
-
European Central Bank
- ECDC:
-
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
- ECE:
-
Economic Commission for Europe
- ECFMG:
-
Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates (USA)
- ECHO*:
-
*European Community Humanitarian Office (EU)
- ECHUI:
-
Ending Child Hunger and Undernutrition Initiative
- ECLAC:
-
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN)
- ECLS:
-
Extracorporeal life support
- ECOSOC:
-
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
- ECOWAS:
-
Economic Community of West African States
- ECP:
-
Essential clinical package
- ECPAT:
-
End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism International
- ECWA:
-
Economic Commission for Western Asia
- ED/EM:
-
Essential drugs/essential medicines
- EFA:
-
Education for All
- EFNA:
-
Emergency Food Needs assessment
- EHA:
-
Emergency and Humanitarian Action (WHO)
- *eHealth:
-
Electronic health
- EHESS:
-
L’Ecôle de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
- EHRP:
-
Emergency Humanitarian Response Plan
- EIA:
-
Environmental impact assessment
- EMERCOM:
-
Emergency Committee (Russia)
- EMMIR:
-
Emergency military medical assistance (France)
- EMOP:
-
Emergency operation
- EMP:
-
*Electromagnetic pulse
- EMRIP:
-
UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- EMRO:
-
Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (WHO)
- EMS:
-
*Emergency medical services
- ENEA:
-
(Italian Committee for) Nuclear Energy and Alternative Energies
- ENSO:
-
*El Ninô – Southern Oscillation (meteorology)
- EOC:
-
Emergency operations centre
- EOE:
-
Equal opportunity employer
- EPA:
-
Environmental Protection Agency (USA)
- EPGH:
-
European Partnership in Global Health
- EPHI:
-
Essential Public Health Interventions
- EPI:
-
*Expanded Programme on Immunization (WHO-UNICEF)
- EPRP:
-
Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan
- EPSCO:
-
Employment, Social Policy, and Health and Consumer Affairs Council
- EQA:
-
External quality assessment
- ERC:
-
Emergency Relief Coordinator – UN New York
- ER&FS:
-
Early Recovery and Food Security work plan
- ERM:
-
*Emergency Risk Management and Humanitarian Response (WHO) (previously HAC and ERO)
- ERNA:
-
Early Recovery Needs Assessment
- ERTS:
-
Earth Resources Technology Satellite
- ESA:
-
European Space Agency
- ESCAP:
-
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN)
- ESPRIT:
-
European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology
- ETA:
-
Expected time of arrival
- ETD:
-
Expected time of departure
- ETR:
-
Expected time of return
- EU:
-
European Union
- EURO/Euro:
-
Regional Office for Europe (WHO)
The European currency unit
- Expat:
-
Expatriate person
F
- °F:
-
Degree Fahrenheit
- FAAD:
-
Food Aid and Development (WFP policies)
- F&D/f&d:
-
Commerce: Freight and demurrage
- FAO:
-
*Food and Agriculture Organization / UN
- f.a.q.:
-
Commerce/shipping: Free alongside quay
- FAR:
-
*Fund for Armenian Relief
- FAS:
-
Commerce/shipping: Free alongside ship
- FAWE:
-
Forum for African Women Educationalists
- FBF:
-
*Fortified blended food
- FBI:
-
Federal Bureau of Investigation (USA)
Focal brain ischaemia
- FBO:
-
Faith-based organization
- FCM:
-
*Full cream milk powder
- FDA:
-
Food and Drug Administration (USA)
- FDC:
-
Fixed-dose combination
- FDI:
-
Foreign direct investment
*Fédération Dentaire Internationale/WDF
- FERI:
-
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
- FFH/CAFD:
-
Freedom From Hunger – Campaign Action For Development
- FFR:
-
Food for recovery
- FFW:
-
Food for work
- FGM:
-
*Female genital mutilation
- FHI:
-
Food for the Hungry International
- FHR:
-
Medicine: foetal heart rate
- FICSA:
-
Former International Civil Servants’ Association (UN)
- FIDH:
-
International Federation for Human Rights
- FIGO:
-
Fédération Internationale de Gynécologie et Obstétrique
- FIND:
-
*Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
- FMEA:
-
Failure mode and effects analysis (also HC-FMEA)
- FOB:
-
Commerce: free on board
- f.o.s.:
-
Commerce: free on ship
- f.o.t.:
-
Commerce: free of tax
- FPC:
-
Fish protein concentrate
- FPIC:
-
Free, prior and informed consent
- ft:
-
Foot or feet (measure)
- FXBI:
-
*Association François-Xavier Bagnoud/FXB International
- FYI/f.y.i.:
-
For your information
G
- g:
-
Gram or gramme
- G8:
-
Group of eight leading rich industrial countries
- G20:
-
*Group of 20 leading rich industrial countries
- G77:
-
Group of 77 developing, non-aligned countries
- GAA:
-
German Agro Action
- GACD:
-
Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases
- GAIN:
-
*Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
- GAINS:
-
Gender Awareness Information and Networking System
- gal:
-
Gallon
- GARP:
-
Global Atmosphere Research Programme
- GAVI:
-
*Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization
- GBD:
-
Global burden of disease
- GBV:
-
Gender-based violence
- GCCA:
-
Global Climate Change Alliance
- GCI:
-
*Green Cross International
- GCIM:
-
Global Commission on International Migration
- GCS:
-
*Glasgow Coma Scale
- GCSF:
-
Global *Civil Society Forum
- GDA:
-
Global Development Alliance (USAID)
- GDF:
-
Global Drug Facility (e.g. against tuberculosis)
- GDP/gdp:
-
Gross domestic product
- GenCap:
-
Gender Standby Capacity Project
- *GEO:
-
Group on Earth Observations
- GFAT:
-
*Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (also GF)
- GFHR:
-
*Global Forum for Health Research
- GFMER:
-
Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
- GFR:
-
General fertility rate
- GH:
-
*Global health
- GHC/WHO:
-
*Global Health Cluster/WHO
- GHD:
-
*Global health diplomacy
*Good Humanitarian Donorship
- GHF:
-
Geneva Health Forum
- GHG:
-
(Global) *greenhouse gas
- GHP:
-
Global Health Partnership (WHO)
- GHWA:
-
Global Health Workforce Alliance
- GIAN:
-
Geneva International Academic Network
- GIEESC:
-
*Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (WHO)
- GIIDS:
-
*Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
- GINA:
-
Geneva International Network on Ageing
- GIPRI:
-
Geneva International Peace Research Institute
- GIS:
-
Geographic information systems
- GISAH:
-
Global Information System on Alcohol and Health
- GIVS:
-
Global Immunization Vision and Strategy
- GLI:
-
Global Laboratory Initiative
- Global Fund:
-
*Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- GLOBE:
-
Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment
- GMAD:
-
Global Mine Action Directory
- GMDS:
-
Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
- GMEF:
-
Global Ministerial Environment Forum
- GMF:
-
Genetically modified food
- GMO:
-
Genetically modified organism
- GMP/WHO:
-
*Good manufacturing practices (WHO model)
- GMT:
-
Greenwich Mean Time
- GNI:
-
Gross national income
- GNP:
-
*Gross national product
- GO:
-
Governmental organization
- GOARN:
-
Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network
- *GOES:
-
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite / *Global-Observing Environmental Satellite
- GOS:
-
Global Observing System
- GPEI:
-
Global Polio Eradication Initiative
- GPS:
-
Global Positioning System
- GPSC:
-
Global Patient Safety Challenge (WHO)
- GRID:
-
Global Resource Information Database
- GRIPP:
-
Global Review and Inventory of Population Policies
- GRT:
-
Gross register tonnage
- GSO:
-
Geostationary satellite orbit
- Gy:
-
*Gray (Unit of radioactive absorbed dose)
H
- H1N1:
-
Swine influenza virus strain (*pandemic)
- H5N1:
-
*Avian influenza virus strain (*epidemic)
- H2O:
-
*Water
- HAV:
-
*Hepatitis A virus
- HABITAT:
-
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (UNCHS)
- HAC:
-
Health Action in Crises (WHO) (changed to *ERM)
- HACCP:
-
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system
- HALE:
-
Health-adjusted life expectancy (see *QALY)
- HBC(s):
-
High-burden countries
- HBV:
-
*Hepatitis B virus
- HC-FMEA:
-
Health care – failure modes and effects analysis
- HCHR:
-
*High Commissioner for Human Rights (also OHCHR, UNHCHR)
- HCR:
-
*High Commissioner for Refugees (also UNHCR)
- HDI:
-
Human development index
- HDR:
-
Humanitarian daily *ration
- HDS:
-
Department of Health Policy, Development and Services (WHO)
- HDTC:
-
Humanitarian Demining Training Center
- HE:
-
High energy (food)
- HELP:
-
Health Emergencies in Large Populations
- HEM:
-
High-energy milk (feeding mixture)
- HFA:
-
Hyogo Framework for Action
- HHS:
-
Health and Human Services Department (USA)
- HIC:
-
*High-income country
- HIID:
-
Harvard Institute for International Development
- HILAC:
-
Heavy-ion linear accelerator
- HIPC:
-
Heavily indebted poor countries
- HiT:
-
Health care systems in transition
- HIV:
-
*Human immunodeficiency virus
- HIV/AIDS:
-
*Human immunodeficiency disease (also AIDS)
- HLF:
-
High-Level Forum (on health MDGs)
- HPC:
-
Hiroshima* Peacebuilders Center (Japan)
- HRC:
-
Human Rights Council
- HRI:
-
*Humanitarian Response Index
- HRIC:
-
UN Office of Human Resources for International Cooperation (DESA)
- HRP:
-
UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/WB Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction
- HRT:
-
Hormone replacement therapy
- HRW:
-
Human Rights Watch
- HSP:
-
Health sector profile
- HSR:
-
Health sector reform
- HTA:
-
Health technology assessment
- HUGO:
-
Human Genome Organization
- HuMA:
-
*Humanitarian Medical Assistance (Japan)
- HUMV/Humvee:
-
Human military light vehicle
- HW:
-
Hazardous *waste
I
- IAEA:
-
*International Atomic Energy Agency (UN)
- IAESCSI:
-
International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions (AICESIS)
- IAF:
-
International Abolitionist Federation
- IAGS:
-
International Association of *Genocide Scholars
- IAHM:
-
*International Association for Humanitarian Medicine Brock Chisholm
- IALANA:
-
International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms
- IAMANEH:
-
*International Association for Maternal and Neonatal Health
- IAMDGT/AIFOMD:
-
International Association of MDG Trainers/Association Internationale de Formateurs pour les Objectifs du Millénaire du Développement – AIFOMD
- IANSA:
-
International Action Network on Small Arms
- IAPSO:
-
International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans
- IAR:
-
International Association for Religious Freedom
- IARF:
-
Inter-Agency Procurement Services Office (UNDP)
- IAS:
-
International Amateur Radio Union
International AIDS Society
- IASC:
-
Inter-Agency Standing Committee for Humanitarian Action
- IATA:
-
International Air Transport Association
- IAVCEI:
-
International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior
- IAW:
-
International Alliance of Women
- IBE:
-
International Bureau of Education
- IBHR:
-
*International Bill of Human Rights
- IBRD:
-
*International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (also *World Bank)
- ICAA:
-
International Council on Alcohol and Addictions
- ICAN:
-
International Campaign to Abolish *Nuclear Weapons
- ICAO:
-
International Civil Aviation Organization (UN)
- ICARRD:
-
International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
- ICBL:
-
International Campaign to Ban *Landmines
- ICBM:
-
Intercontinental ballistic *missile
- ICC:
-
*International Criminal Court (for war crimes – The Hague)
- ICCPR:
-
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- ICD-10:
-
International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision (WHO)
International Statistical Classification of Diseases (WHO)
- ICDO:
-
*International Civil Defence Organisation
- ICECI:
-
International Classification of External Causes of Injury (WHO)
- ICESCR:
-
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- ICHRN:
-
International Centre for Human Resources in Nursing
- ICIDH:
-
International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps (WHO)
- ICJ:
-
*International Court of Justice
International Commission of Jurists
- ICM:
-
Intergovernmental Committee for *Migration
- ICMH:
-
*International Centre for Migration and Health
- ICMC:
-
International Catholic Migration Commission
- ICN:
-
International Council of Nurses
- ICPD:
-
International Conference on Population and Development
- ICPO:
-
“Interpol” – International Criminal Police Organization
- ICR:
-
International Centre of Radiopathology
- ICRC:
-
*International Committee of the Red Cross
- ICR-DC:
-
International Cooperation Research for Developing Countries
- ICRP:
-
International Commission on Radiological Protection / *IAEA
- ICRU:
-
International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements
- ICS:
-
*Incident Command System
- ICSLS:
-
International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea
- ICSM:
-
*Instant corn-soya milk
- ICSR:
-
International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence
- ICSU:
-
International Council of Scientific Unions
- ICT:
-
Information and communications technology
- ICTAC:
-
International Institute for Counter-Terrorism
International Counter-Terrorism Academic Community
- ICTR:
-
*International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- ICTY:
-
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- ICU:
-
*Intensive care unit
- ICVA:
-
International Council of Voluntary Agencies
- ID:
-
Identity document
International dollar (also I$)
- IDA:
-
*International Development Association (World Bank Group)
Islamic Democratic Association
- IDB:
-
Inter-American Development Bank
- IDDM:
-
Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
- IDP:
-
*Internally displaced person
- IDRC:
-
International Development Research Centre (Canada)
- IDRM:
-
International Institute for Disaster Risk Management
- IDRO:
-
International Disaster Relief Operation
- IDTR&M:
-
Identification, documentation, tracing, reunification and mediation
- IDWIP:
-
International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
- IEA:
-
International Energy Agency
- IEC:
-
International Electrotechnical Commission
- IEDD:
-
Improvised explosive device disposal
- IFAD:
-
International Fund for Agricultural Development (UN)
- IFCT:
-
International Forum for Counter-Terrorism
- IFF:
-
Identification – friend or foe (radar identity system)
- IFFIm:
-
International Finance Facility for Immunisation
- IFHHRO:
-
International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations
- IFMSA:
-
*International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations
- IFPMA:
-
International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations
- IFRC:
-
*International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- IFSC:
-
*International Federation of Surgical Colleges
- IFUW:
-
International Federation of University Women
- IGCC:
-
Intergovernmental Group on *Climate Change
- IGO:
-
Intergovernmental organization
- IHEID:
-
Institut de Hautes Etudes Internationales et du Développement / The *Graduate Institute, Geneva
- IHEU:
-
International Humanist and Ethical Union
- IHF:
-
International Hospital Federation
- IHL:
-
*International humanitarian law
- IHR:
-
*International Health Regulations (2005)
- IIHL:
-
International Institute of Humanitarian Law
- IISEE:
-
International Institute of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering
- IIWF:
-
International Independent Women’s Forum
- ILA:
-
International Law Association
- ILC:
-
International Law Commission
- ILO:
-
*International Labour Organization (UN)
- ILOS:
-
In-patient length of stay (in hospital)
- IMARSAT:
-
International Maritime Satellite Organization (also INMARSAT)
- IMC:
-
International Medical Corps
- IMCO:
-
International Maritime Consultative Organization (UN)
- IMF:
-
*International Monetary Fund
- IMO:
-
International Maritime Organization
- IMPACT:
-
*International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce
- IMPATT:
-
Impact avalanche transit time
- IMRA:
-
Independent Media Review and Analysis
- IMSAR:
-
International Maritime Search and Rescue Plan
- in:
-
Inch
- INADES:
-
Institut Africain pour le Développement Economique et Social
- INCB:
-
International Narcotics Control Board
- INES:
-
*International Nuclear Event Scale
- INF:
-
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
- INFDC:
-
International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries
- INFOTERRA:
-
Sources of technical, scientific and decision-oriented information
- INMARSAT:
-
International Maritime Satellite Organization (also IMARSAT)
- INPEA:
-
International Network for Prevention of Elder Abuse
- INRUD:
-
International Network for the Rational Use of Drugs
- INSARAG:
-
International Search and Rescue Advisory Group
- INSTRAW:
-
International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN)
- INTELSAT:
-
International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium
- Interpol:
-
International Criminal Police Organization (ICPO)
- INTERSPUTNIK:
-
International Organization of Space Communications
- IOM:
-
*International Organization for Migration
- IPA:
-
International Paediatric Association
- IPB:
-
International Peace Bureau (Geneva)
- IPC:
-
International Polar Commission
- IPCC:
-
Intergovernmental Panel on *Climate Change
- IPCS:
-
*International Programme on Chemical Safety (WHO-UNEP)
- IPEC:
-
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour
- IPI:
-
International Press Institute
- IPO:
-
Indigenous peoples’ organization
- IPPF:
-
International Planned Parenthood Federation
- IPPNW:
-
*International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- IPRAS:
-
International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery
- IPT:
-
Isoniazid preventive therapy
- IPU:
-
Inter-Parliamentary Union
- IPV:
-
Inactivated polio vaccine
- IRC:
-
International Rescue Committee
- IRENE:
-
Informal Regional Network of NGOs
- IRP:
-
*International Recovery Platform
- IRPTC:
-
International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals
- IRR:
-
Incidence rate ratio
- IRS:
-
Indoor residual spraying
- ISBI:
-
International Society for Burn Injuries
- ISDR:
-
*International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN)
- ISIS:
-
International Satellite for Ionospheric Studies
- ISO:
-
International Organization for Standardization
- ISS:
-
International Social Service / SSI
- ISTC:
-
International Standards for Tuberculosis Care
- ITACCS:
-
International Trauma Anaesthesia Critical Care Society
- ITIC:
-
International Tsunami Information Center (Honolulu)
- ITN:
-
Insecticide-treated mosquito net
- ITU:
-
*International Telecommunication Union (UN)
Intensive therapy unit (also ICU)
- IUD:
-
Intra-uterine device (for contraception)
- IV (i.v.):
-
Medicine: Intravenous
- IWGIA:
-
International Working Group for Indigenous Affairs
- IWTC:
-
International Women’s Tribune Centre
J
- J:
-
joule
- JCWI:
-
Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
- JDR:
-
Japan Disaster Relief
- JFAM:
-
Joint Food Needs Assessment Mission (WFP/UNHCR)
- JICA:
-
*Japan International Cooperation Agency
- JMTDR:
-
*Japan Medical Team for Disaster Relief
K
- kcal:
-
*Kilocalorie (energy unit)
- KCSJ:
-
Knight Commander of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (also KSJ, Knights Hospitaller)
- *Kerma:
-
Kinetic energy released in matter
- KFOR:
-
Multinational Kosovo Force
- Kg:
-
Kilogram (or kilogramme)
- KKK:
-
Ku Klux Klan (US)
- Km:
-
*Kilometre or kilometer (also km)
- Kt:
-
*Kiloton
- kw:
-
*Kilowatt
L
- LA:
-
Lead Agency
- LANDSAT:
-
Earth Resources Technology Satellite
- *Laser:
-
Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation
- LAV:
-
Light armoured vehicle
- lb:
-
*Pound
- LCT:
-
Landing craft tank
- LDC:
-
*Least-developed countries
- LD-50:
-
Median lethal dose
- LDF:
-
Local development fund
- LHRD:
-
Lawyers for Human Rights and Development
- LIFDC:
-
Low-income, food-deficit country
- LLITN:
-
Long-lasting insecticide-treated net (against malaria). Also LLIN
- LMIC:
-
Low- and middle-income countries
- LPG:
-
Liquified petroleum gas
- LSHTM:
-
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- LTSH:
-
Land-side transport, storage and handling
- LWR:
-
Lutheran World Relief
- LWS:
-
Lutheran World Service
M
- m:
-
*Metre or meter
- MAD:
-
Military: Mutual assured destruction
- M&E:
-
Monitoring and evaluation
- MAIC:
-
Mine Action Information Center (see ICBL)
- MAROTS:
-
Maritime orbital test satellite
- MARS:
-
Major accident reporting system
- MASCAL:
-
*Mass casualty
- MASH:
-
Mobile army surgical hospital
- MBC:
-
*Mediterranean Council for Burns and Fire Disasters /
*Euro-Mediterranean Council for Burns and Fire Disasters
- MCDA:
-
Military and civil defence assets
- MCH:
-
Mother and child health
- MCI:
-
*Mass casualty incident
- MCO:
-
Managed care organization
- MDG(s):
-
UN Millennium Development Goal(s)
*Millennium Development Goal(s)
- MDM:
-
Médecins du Monde / Doctors of the World
- MDTF:
-
Multi-donor trust fund
- MDR:
-
Multidrug resistant disease (see also XDR)
Multidrug resistant
- MDR-TB:
-
Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (with isoniazid and rifampicin resistance)
- MDS:
-
Maritime Distress and Safety System
- MEDICS:
-
Medical Information and Coordination System
- MEDINT:
-
Medical intelligence
- MEDLARS:
-
Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System
- MEDLINE:
-
Medical Literature Online (NLM)
- MERLIN:
-
Medical Emergency Relief International
- METEOSAT:
-
Meteorological Satellite, Europe
- METTAG:
-
Medical emergency triage tag
Medical Emergency *Triage Tag
- MFI:
-
*Microfinance institution
- *Mg:
-
Milligramme or milligram (also mg)
- MHI:
-
*Major hazard installation
- MI5:
-
British counter-intelligence agency
- MI6:
-
British intelligence and espionage agency
- MIC:
-
Methyl isocyanate (*Bhopal disaster of 1984)
- MIDAS:
-
Missile Defense Alarm System
- MIM:
-
Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (in Africa)
- MINURCAT:
-
UN Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad
- MINUSTAH:
-
UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti
- MIRV:
-
Multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle
- MISP:
-
Minimum initial service package
- MMEIG:
-
Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-agency Group
- MMR:
-
Measles-mumps-rubella (vaccine)
Maternal mortality rate/ratio
- MMI:
-
*Medicus Mundi International
- MMV:
-
Medicines for Malaria Venture
- MNT:
-
Maternal and neonatal tetanus
- MONUC:
-
Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (UN)
- MOF:
-
*Multiple organ failure
- MOH:
-
Ministry of Health
- MOTAPM:
-
Explosive remnants of war and mines other than anti-personnel landmines
- MoU:
-
Memorandum of understanding
- MRI:
-
Magnetic resonance imaging (body scan)
- MRSA:
-
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
- MSAC:
-
*Most seriously affected countries
- MSF:
-
*Médecins sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders
- MSH:
-
Management sciences for health
- MSW:
-
Medical social worker
- Mt:
-
*Megaton
- MT:
-
Metric tonne
- MTA:
-
*Medicines Transparency Alliance
- MTE:
-
Mass toxicological event
- MTF:
-
Medical treatment facility
- MUAC:
-
Medicine: Mid-upper-arm circumference
- MW:
-
Megawatt
N
- NAICC:
-
National Aborigine and Islander Child Care (Australia)
- *Napalm:
-
Aluminium naphthenate – aluminium palmitite (weapon)
- NASA:
-
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
- NATO:
-
*North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Nazi:
-
(German): Nazional-sozialisten
- NC:
-
Nuremberg Charter
- NCBW:
-
Nuclear, chemical and biological warfare (or weapon)
- NCD:
-
Noncommunicable disease
- NCHS:
-
National Centre for Health Statistics
- NDP:
-
National drug policy
- NFI:
-
Non-food item
- NFZ:
-
Nuclear-free zone
- NGLS:
-
*United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service
- NGO:
-
*Non-governmental organization
- NGS:
-
Nuclear generating station
- NHDP:
-
National Health Development Plan
- NHS:
-
National Health Service
- NIH:
-
Nationl Institutes of Health
- NIS:
-
Newly Independent State(s)
- NNHT:
-
Nuffield Nursing Homes Trust (UK)
- NNT:
-
Nuclear Non-prolferation Treaty (also NPT)
- NOAA:
-
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NORAD:
-
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
North American Air Defense Command
- NPA:
-
Norwegian Peoples’ Aid
- NPC:
-
National Programme Coordinator (WHO)
- *NPT:
-
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
- NRC:
-
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US)
- NRDS:
-
Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
- NRO:
-
National Reconnaissance Office (USA)
- *NRT:
-
Net registered tonnage
- NTD:
-
*Neglected tropical disease(s)
- NTP:
-
National tuberculosis control programme (or equivalent)
- NWC:
-
National WHO Programme Coordinator
- NWFZ:
-
Nuclear-weapons-free zone
- NYD:
-
Medicine: Not yet diagnosed
O
- OAS:
-
Organization of American States
- OAU:
-
Organization of African Unity. (Changed to AU: African Union)
- OCHA:
-
*Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN)
- ODA:
-
Official development assistance
Overseas Development Agency
- ODCCP:
-
Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention / UN
- ODI:
-
Overseas Development Institute (UK)
- OECD:
-
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- OFDA:
-
*Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USA)
- OHA:
-
Office for Humanitarian Affairs (WFP)
- *OHCHR:
-
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ( also HCHR, UNHCHR)
- OHRLLS:
-
Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States
- OIE:
-
Office International des Epizooties (WOAH)
- OMAEP:
-
World Organization for Parental Education Associations /Organisation mondiale des Associations pour l’Education parentale
- OMCT:
-
Organisation mondiale contre la Torture / World Organization Against Torture / SOS Torture
- *OPCAT:
-
*Optional Protocol to the UN Convention Against Torture
- OPCW:
-
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
- OPEC:
-
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
- OPV:
-
Oral polio vaccine
- OR:
-
Surgical: Operating room
- ORS:
-
*Oral rehydration salts
- ORSEC:
-
Disaster relief organization, France
- OSCAL:
-
Office of the Special Coordinator for Africa and the Least Developed Countries/DESA
- OSCAR:
-
Orbital Satellites Carrying Amateur Radio
- OSCC:
-
On-site operations coordinating centre
- OSCE:
-
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
- OSRO:
-
Office of Special Relief Operations
- OST:
-
Office of Science and Technology (USA)
*Outer Space Treaty
- OVC:
-
Orphans and vulnerable children
- OWRA:
-
Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement (USA)
- OXFAM*:
-
*Oxford Committee for Famine Relief International
P
- Pa:
-
*Pascal
- PADCO:
-
Planning and Development Collaborative International
- PAHO:
-
Pan American Health Organization *(WHO)
- PAM:
-
Programme Alimentaire Mondial – *World Food Programme (UN)
- Pap:
-
Medicine: vernacular abbreviation for Papanicolaou cervical test
- PAR:
-
Population at risk
- PASB:
-
Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PAHO)
- PATH:
-
Programme for *Appropriate Technology in Health
- PC:
-
Peace Corps
- PCI:
-
Project Concern International
- PCM:
-
*Protein-calorie malnutrition
- PCNA:
-
Post-conflict needs assessment
- PEC/WHO:
-
*Polio, Emergencies and Country Collaboration/WHO
- PEM:
-
Protein-energy malnutrition
- PEPFAR:
-
(USA) President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
- PERT:
-
Programme evaluation and review technique
- PET:
-
Potential evapotranspiration
Positron emission tomography
- P4P:
-
Policy for planning
- PFII:
-
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
- PHC:
-
*Primary health care
- PHM:
-
*Prehospital medicine
*People’s Health Movement
- PHR:
-
Physicians for Human Rights
- PID:
-
Pelvic inflammatory disease
- PIK:
-
Payment in kind
- PIU:
-
Policy intelligence unit
- PLS:
-
Prolonged life support (anaesthesia)
- PMDF:
-
Proportion of maternal deaths among females of reproductive age
- PMSC:
-
*Private military and security company
- PNND:
-
Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
- PNP:
-
Private non-profit
- p.o.:
-
Medicine: per os – by mouth
- POMR:
-
Problem-oriented medical record
- POP:
-
Fractures/orthopaedics: Plaster of Paris
- POW:
-
*Prisoner of war or prisoner-of-war
- PPE:
-
Personal protective equipment
- PPH:
-
Post-partum haemorrhage
*Pro-poor health strategy
- PPM:
-
Public-private mix
- PPP:
-
Purchasing power parity
- PQMD:
-
Partnership for Quality Medical Donations
- PRD/S:
-
Post-resuscitation disease/syndrome
- *PRISM:
-
*Prognostic risk of mortality
- PROGRESA:
-
Programa de Educaciòn, Salud y Alimentaciòn
- PRRO:
-
Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (WFP)
- PRS:
-
*Poverty reduction strategy
- PSI:
-
*Population Services International
- PSR:
-
Physicians for Social Responsibility
- PTA:
-
Travel: prepaid ticket authorization
Parent-Teacher Association
- PTSS:
-
Programme and Technical Support Section (UNHCR)
*Post-traumatic stress syndrome
- PTWC:
-
Pacific *Tsunami Warning Center (Honolulu)
- PUO:
-
Pyrexia (fever) of unknown origin
- PVO(s):
-
Private and voluntary organization(s)
Q
- QAP:
-
Quick action project
- Quake:
-
Vernacular abbreviation for earthquake
- Quakers:
-
Friends World Committee for Consultation (Quakers)
- QALE:
-
*Quality-adjusted life expectancy
- QALY(s):
-
*Quality-adjusted life year(s)
R
- RA:
-
*Radium
- RACES:
-
Radio Amateur Civil Engineering Service
- *rad:
-
Radiation absorbed dose (replaced by gray – Gy)
- *Radar:
-
Radio detection and ranging
- RAMOS:
-
Reproductive age mortality studies
- RAP:
-
*Rapid Assessment Protocol
- R&D:
-
Research and development
- RBC/rbc:
-
Medicine: red blood cells
- RBM:
-
Roll Back *Malaria Partnership (WHO)
- RC:
-
*Red Cross
- RCPSC:
-
*Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
- RCRC:
-
*Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC)
- RCT:
-
Randomized controlled trial
- RDF:
-
Rapid Deployment Force (USA)
- READI:
-
Euro-Arab Network of NGOs for Development and Integration
- REC:
-
Regional Economic Community
- Radda Barnen:
-
Swedish Save the Children Organization
- Redd Barna:
-
Norwegian Save the Children Organization
- *rem:
-
Roentgen equivalent man
- REMPAN:
-
Radiation Emergency Medical Preparedness and Assistance Network
- Res Rep:
-
Resident Representative (of UNDP)
- R2P:
-
Right to *protection
- Rh:
-
Medicine: Rhesus factor
- RH:
-
Reproductive health
- RHIB:
-
Rigid-hulled inflatable boat
- RI:
-
*Refugees International
- Ro-ro:
-
Roll on/roll off (ferry)
- RT:
-
Register ton
- RUTF:
-
Ready-to-use therapeutic food
S
- s:
-
Second
- S&T:
-
Science and technology / scientific and technological
- SAA:
-
Small arms ammunition
- SAAFA:
-
Special Arab Assistance Fund for Africa
- SAARC:
-
Southern African Association for Regional Cooperation
- SAB:
-
Skilled attendant at birth (as a proportion of total live births)
- SADC:
-
Southern African Development Community
- SAFE:
-
Surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness and environmental improvement
- SAGE:
-
Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (on immunization),(WHO)
- SAILD:
-
Service d’Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Développement
- SALT:
-
*Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
- SAM:
-
Severe acute malnutrition
Surface-to-air *missile
- SAMU:
-
French EMS: Service d’Assistance Médicale d’Urgence
- SAR:
-
*Search and rescue
- SARAH:
-
Search and rescue and homing (radar system)
- SAREC:
-
Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries
- SARS:
-
*Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- SARSAT-COPAS:
-
Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking
- SATURN:
-
Specific Antibiotic Therapies on the prevalence of human host-resistant bacteria
- SBA:
-
Standby arrangement(s)
- SCF(I):
-
Save the Children Fund (International)
- SCHR:
-
Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response
- Scuba:
-
Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
- SDC:
-
*Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
- SDE:
-
Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments Cluster (WHO)
- SDI:
-
*Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”)
- SDR:
-
Swiss Association for Aid to Developing Countries (SWISSAID)
- SEA:
-
Sexual exploitation and abuse
- SEARO:
-
Regional Office for South-East Asia (WHO)
- SEATO:
-
South East Asia Treaty Organization
- SEEHN:
-
South-Eastern Europe Health Network
- SERPAJ:
-
Servicio Paz y Justicia (Uruguay)
- SFB:
-
*Soya-fortified bulgur
- SFCM:
-
*Soya-fortified cornmeal
- SFP/C:
-
*Supplementary feeding programme / centre
- SFSG:
-
*Soya-fortified sorghum grits
- SGBV:
-
Sexual and gender-based violence
- SHAPE:
-
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (NATO)
- SHARED:
-
Scientists for Health and Research for Development
- SI:
-
Système International d’Unités (International System of Units)
- SIAMED:
-
WHO model system for computer-assisted drug registration
- SID:
-
*Society for International Development
- SIDA:
-
Swedish International Development Authority
- SIPRI:
-
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- SITREP:
-
Situation report
- SIW:
-
Self-inflicted wound
- SKI:
-
Street Kids International (Canada)
- SLBM:
-
Submarine-launched ballistic missile
- SLCM:
-
Submarine-launched cruise missile
- *SMS/GOES:
-
Synchronous Meteorological Satellites / *Global-observing environmental satellites
- SOLAS:
-
International Conference for the *Safety of Life at Sea
- SONAR:
-
Sound navigation and ranging
- SORT:
-
Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty
- SOS:
-
Save our souls (distress signal)
*Surgeons OverSeas
- SOST:
-
SOS *Torture
- Soweto:
-
South-Western Townships (South Africa)
- SP:
-
*The Sphere Project
Samaritan’s Purse
- SPFS:
-
Special Programme for Food Security
- SRAM:
-
Short-range attack missile
- SRS:
-
Strategic rotating stockpile
- SSSL:
-
Safe Surgery Saves Lives (WHO programme)
- *START:
-
*Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
Simple treatment and rapid transport system
- STD:
-
*Sexually transmitted disease(s)
- SUMA:
-
Supply management for disaster relief (PAHO-WHO)
- Sv:
-
*Sievert – unit of radiation dose
- SWAps:
-
*Sector-wide approaches
- SWAPO:
-
South West Africa People’s Organization
- SWEAT:
-
*Severe weather threat (WMO)
- SWISSAID:
-
*Swiss association for aid to developing countries (SDC)
T
- TA:
-
Transnational Authority
- TAB:
-
Total absorbed dose (of radiation)
- TAG:
-
Technical Advisory Group
- TAT:
-
Toxin antitoxin
- TB/Tb:
-
*Tuberculosis
- TB/DOTS:
-
Directly observed treatment short course for tuberculosis
- TBA:
-
*Traditional birth attendant
- TBSA:
-
Total *body surface area (in burn injury)
- TCAM:
-
*Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine
- TCDC:
-
*Technical cooperation among developing countries
- TdH:
-
Fédération Internationale Terre des Hommes
- TDR:
-
Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (UNDP/WHO/World Bank)
- TEKT:
-
*Technology enabled knowledge translation
- Telex:
-
Teleprinter exchange
- TF(s):
-
Trust fund(s)
- TFP/C:
-
*Therapeutic feeding programme/centre
- TFR:
-
Total fertility rate
- TI:
-
*Transparency International
- TIR:
-
Transport International Routier/International Road Transport
- TISS:
-
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (India)
- TMI:
-
*Three Mile Island (nuclear accident, USA)
- TNM:
-
Tumour (size), node (involvement), metastasis (in cancer classification)
- *TNT:
-
*2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene (chemical explosive)
- TOKTEN:
-
Transfer of knowledge through expatriate nationals
- TRC:
-
*Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
- TRISS:
-
*Trauma and injury severity score
- TS:
-
*Trauma score (AMA)
Tidal scale
- TSK:
-
Transitional shelter kit
U
- U:
-
*Uranium
- U3A:
-
University of the Third Age
- UAM:
-
*Unaccompanied minor
- UCI:
-
Universal child immunization
- UER/EBU:
-
Union Européenne de Radiodiffusion / European Broadcasting Union
- UFO:
-
Unidentified flying object
- UHS:
-
Uncontrolled haemorrhagic shock
- UHT:
-
Ultra-high heat treated (e.g. milk)
- UMCOR:
-
United Methodist Committee on Relief
- *UN:
-
*United Nations, United Nations Organization
- UNA(s):
-
United Nations Association(s)
- UNAIDS:
-
United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS
- UNCAC:
-
United Nations Convention Against *Corruption
- UNCAST:
-
United Nations Conference on the Applications of Science and Technology
- UNCCD:
-
United Nations Convention to Combat *Desertification
- UNCED:
-
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
- UNCHR:
-
*United Nations Council on Human Rights (previously Commission)
- UNCHS:
-
*United Nations Centre for Human Settlements – HABITAT
- UNCIVPOL:
-
*United Nations Civil Police
- UNCLOS:
-
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
- UNCT:
-
United Nations Country Team
- UNCTAD:
-
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- UNCSTD:
-
United Nations Conference on Science and Technology for Development
- UNDAF:
-
United Nations Development Assistance Framework
- UNDEF:
-
*United Nations Democracy Fund
- UNDHR:
-
*Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- UNDP:
-
*United Nations Development Programme
- UNDPKO:
-
*United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations
- UNDRO:
-
Office of the UN Disaster Relief Coordinator (superseded by *OCHA)
- UNEP:
-
*United Nations Environment Programme
- UNERC:
-
*United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator
- UNESCAP:
-
*UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (also ESCAP)
- *UNESCO:
-
*United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- UNFCCC:
-
*United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- UNFICYP:
-
United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
- UNFPA:
-
*United Nations Fund for Population Activities/UN Population Fund
- UN-HABITAT:
-
*United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
- UNHCHR:
-
*United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (also OHCHR)
- UNHCR:
-
*United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- UNHMH:
-
United Nations Humanitarian Mission in Haiti
- UNHRD:
-
United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (Brindisi)
- UNIC(s):
-
United Nations Information Centre(s)
- UNICEF:
-
*United Nations Children’s Fund
- UNICRI:
-
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
- UNIDIR:
-
*United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
- UNIDO:
-
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- UNIFEM:
-
United Nations Development Fund for Women
- UNIFIL:
-
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
- UNIMAS:
-
United Nations *Mine Action Service
- UNIPAC:
-
*UNICEF Procurement and Assembly Centre (Copenhagen *stockpile)
- UNIRENE:
-
United Nations Informal Regional Network of NGOs
- UNISDR:
-
*UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (OCHA)
- UNITAID:
-
*UN International facility for purchase of diagnostics and drugs for tuberculosis, AIDS and malaria
- UNITAR:
-
United Nations Institute for Training and Research
- UNMIK:
-
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
- UNODC:
-
*United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- UNOG:
-
*United Nations Office at Geneva
- UNON:
-
*United Nations Office at Nairobi
- UNOOSA:
-
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
- UNOV:
-
*United Nations Office at Vienna
- UNPFII:
-
United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
- UNPROFOR:
-
United Nations Protection Force
- UNRCA:
-
United Nations Registry of Conventional Arms
- UNRISD:
-
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
- UNRWA:
-
*United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
- UNSCEAR:
-
*United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation
- UNSCP:
-
United Nations Special Committee on Palestine
- UNSECOORD:
-
UN Security Coordinator (New York)
- UNSO:
-
*United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office
- UN-SPIDER:
-
United Nations Platform for Space-Based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response
- UNU:
-
*United Nations University
- UNV:
-
United Nations Volunteers
- UNVFVT:
-
UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture
- UNW:
-
United Nations Women
- UNWGIP:
-
UN Working Group on Indigenous Populations
- UP:
-
United Press
- UPI:
-
United Press International
- URI/URTI:
-
Upper respiratory (tract) infection
- USAID:
-
United States Agency for International Development (also AID)
- UTC:
-
*Universal Time Consolidated
- UXO/UXB:
-
Unexploded ordnance/unexploded bomb
- UXOCE:
-
UXO Center of Excellence
V
- VD:
-
*Venereal disease(s)
- VDRL:
-
Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (for syphilis test)
- VECTOR:
-
State Research Centre of Virology and Biotechnology (Russia, variola)
- VHF:
-
Very high frequency (radio)
- VITA:
-
Volunteers in Technical Assistance Inc.
- VLBW:
-
Very low birth weight
- VNGOC:
-
Vienna NGO Committee on Narcotic Drugs
- VOICE:
-
Voluntary Organisations in Cooperation for Emergencies
- VOLAG:
-
*Voluntary agency
- VR:
-
Vital registration
W
- W:
-
*Watt
- WADEM:
-
*World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine
- WAPS:
-
World Alliance for *Patient Safety (WHO)
- WASH:
-
*Water, sanitation and hygiene
- WBC:
-
White blood cells
- WCC:
-
*World Council of Churches
- WCED:
-
*World Commission on Environment and Development
- WCRWC:
-
Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children
- WEFAX:
-
Weather facsimile communications system
- WES:
-
Water and environmental sanitation
- WFC:
-
World Food Council
- WFH:
-
Weight for height (nutrition survey)
- WFNS:
-
World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
- WFP:
-
*World Food Programme (UN)
- WFSOS:
-
World Federation of Surgical Oncology Societies
- WFSW:
-
World Federation of Scientific Workers
- WHA:
-
*World Health Assembly (of WHO)
- WHO:
-
*World Health Organization
- WHODAS:
-
WHO Disability Assessment Schedule
- *WHOPAX:
-
WHO Committee on the role of physicians in the preservation and promotion of peace
- WIA:
-
Wounded in action
- WIDER:
-
*World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU)
- WILPF:
-
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
- WINGS:
-
WFP Information Network and Global System
- WIPO:
-
World Intellectual Property Organization (UN)
- WJC:
-
World Jewish Congress
- WLM:
-
Women’s Liberation Movement
- WMA:
-
*World Medical Association
- WMD(s):
-
*Weapon(s) of mass destruction
- WMO:
-
*World Meteorological Organization (UN)
- WOAH:
-
World Association for Animal Health (OIE)
- WOAT:
-
World Organisation Against *Torture (SOS Torture)
- WOFAPS:
-
World Federation of Associations of Paediatric Surgeons
- WOH:
-
*World Open Hospital (*IAHM)
- WOSM:
-
World Organization of the *Scout Movement (boy scouts/girl guides)
- WPA:
-
World Psychiatric Association
- WPC:
-
WHO Programme Coordinator
- WPRO:
-
Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WHO)
- WR:
-
*WHO representative
- WRO (w.r.o.):
-
(Commerce/insurance) war risks only
- WSB:
-
*Wheat-soya blend
- WSM:
-
*Wheat-soya milk
- WSSD:
-
World Summit on *Sustainable Development
- WTO:
-
World Trade Organization
- WUS:
-
World University Service
- WV:
-
*World Vision International
- WWF:
-
*World Wide Fund for Nature International (formerly World Wildlife Fund)
- WWSSN:
-
World-Wide Standard Seismography Network
- WWW:
-
*World Weather Watch (WMO)
- www:
-
World Wide Web
X
- XDR:
-
Extensively drug-resistant disease
- XDR-TB:
-
Tuberculosis caused by MDR strains also resistant to fluoroquinolone
Y
- Y:
-
Young Men’s/Women’s Christian Association (formerly YMCA, YWCA)
- YLDs:
-
Year(s) lost due to disability
- YOB:
-
Year of birth
- YPLL:
-
Year(s) of potential life lost
Z
- ZEG:
-
Zero economic growth
- ZMK:
-
Zentrum für Meeres- und Klimaforschung / Centre for Ocean and Climate Research, Germany
- ZPG:
-
Zero population growth
- ZT:
-
Zulu Time (see *Greenwich Mean Time)
- ZZ:
-
*Zone zero
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Gunn, S.W.A. (2013). Part II Acronyms and Abbreviations. In: Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and Humanitarian Relief. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4445-9_2
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