Sentence examples for severity of emergencies from inspiring English sources

Prioritizing issues affecting children At the same time, the scale and severity of emergencies has increased.

The report is seeking over US$11 billion – 17 percent more than in 2008 – to cope with the growing severity of emergencies; 38 per cent of the funding will support health and nutrition programmes, and 22 per cent will fund water and sanitation projects.

This proxy variable has limitations because it did not control for the difference in severity of emergency patients, the quality of emergency medical service and the occupancy rate of the emergency beds.

At a time when the EU and the international community is having to respond to an unprecedented explosion in the severity of humanitarian emergencies, starting with the refugee crisis, it cannot turn a blind eye to what is happening in eastern Ukraine.

Prosecutors accused the crisis coordinator, who was not aboard the ship, of playing down the severity of the emergency and delaying an adequate response, while the hotel director was charged for his role in the evacuation, described by passengers as chaotic.

Different priority levels shall be considered explicitly with different dispatching rules depending on the severity of the emergency.

The Sphere Handbook states that the crude death rate (CDR) is "the most useful health indicator to monitor and evaluate the severity of an emergency situation" [ 8].

14 This is used to determine the severity of an emergency and guide the need for interventions: more than 3% to under 10% wasting prevalence reflects moderately food insecurity; 10 15% an acute food and livelihood crisis; over 15% a humanitarian emergency; over 30% a famine/humanitarian catastrophe.

The main criteria commonly used to define the response levels are: the severity of the expected emergency; the capacity to handle the likely incidents with local, regional or national resources; and the probable duration of the emergency and recovery time.

We used the Pediatric Risk of Admission Score, second generation (PRISA II), to measure severity of illness at emergency department presentation.

The control scheme is designed to control the vehicle so that it would feel natural to the human driver and passengers during normal safe driving situations, to completely avoid collision in vehicle following situations and to reduce the severity of collisions in unexpected emergency situations.