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    Disaster Management: The Kenyan Perspective
    (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012-12) Muhonja, Faith
    Over the past few years, disasters have increased in their frequency and intensity at an exponential speed. The damages caused by disasters cannot be over emphasised; they include loss of life, human suffering, economic instability and destruction of the environment. Individuals, families, communities and nations have had their bigger share of the impact of disasters. It is from this background that the author sought to empower the reader with knowledge about disaster management. This book will be of great value to the teachers, lectures, students, disaster management professionals/institutions/organizations, and more importantly, those people who care about reducing their disaster vulnerability and promote their resilience. The book seeks to examine the nature of disasters with the aim of promoting disaster preparedness, response, management and mitigation at individual, household, community and country level. The conception of the disaster vicious cycle model and the multifactorial nature of disaster model have been discussed. Capacity building, risk analysis & risk reduction have been highlighted primarily to empower you ‘the reader’. Your safety is your responsibility.
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    Street Food Vendors
    (LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012-05) Muhonja, Faith; ; ;
    Street food vendors play an important role in food security. They feed the larger urban populace with nutritious, cheap, easily accessible and ready to eat foods. Much as we applaud all these benefits; they are potentially a public health risk as they may pass illnesses to it through food contamination. With the findings indicating an overwhelming disease burden, including those of faecal-oral route illnesses, followed by lack of proper health seeking behaviour, compounded by poor working environment; and the overwhelming lack of food handling knowledge which affects their attitude and practice, the danger they pose cannot be over emphasised. The public, especially the consumers of street food will find it intriguing to know what they expose themselves to. The book will form baseline information regarding disease burden in street food vendors to other researchers in the same field. To the consumers of street foods, may be it is high time you take charge of your health. To the custodian of public health, ensure a distance eye on street food vendors’ activities, who are actually not only here to stay but to swell in their numbers if the prevailing economic realities hold.