Call Centers, Disaster Medicine, and Public Health Preparedness
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Building capacity for community disaster preparedness: a call for collaboration between public environmental health and emergency preparedness and response programs.
Partnerships among local public environmental health (EH), emergency preparedness and response (EPR) programs, and the communities they serve have great potential to build community environmental health emergency preparedness (EHEP) capacity. In the study described in this article, the beliefs and organizational practices pertaining to community EHEP outreach and capacity were explored through ...
متن کاملReflections on the discipline and profession of disaster medicine and public health preparedness.
For most of us, the tragic memories and burning embers of September 11, 2001, flicker in our minds even 10 years later. In that time, our nation has faced numerous domestic and international crises, both human made and natural, including SARS, Hurricane Katrina, the H1N1 pandemic, the Haitian earthquake, and the ongoing radiation emergency in Fukushima, Japan, but none of these had the singular...
متن کاملDisaster 101: a novel approach to health care students' disaster medicine and emergency preparedness training.
To the Editor: Calls to develop skill-based competencies for emergency preparedness for health professionals—including physician trainees—predate the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In June 2001, an American College of Emergency Physicians task force recommended that residents and medical students achieve proficiency in bioterrorism and weapons of mass destruction.1 Unfortunately, in t...
متن کاملCore competencies for disaster medicine and public health.
Effective preparedness, response, and recovery from disasters require a well-planned, integrated effort with experienced professionals who can apply specialized knowledge and skills in critical situations. While some professionals are trained for this, others may lack the critical knowledge and experience needed to effectively perform under stressful disaster conditions. A set of clear, concise...
متن کاملA consensus-based educational framework and competency set for the discipline of disaster medicine and public health preparedness.
BACKGROUND Various organizations and universities have developed competencies for health professionals and other emergency responders. Little effort has been devoted to the integration of these competencies across health specialties and professions. The American Medical Association Center for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response convened an expert working group (EWG) to review extan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1935-7893,1938-744X
DOI: 10.1097/dmp.0b013e3181b9dbaa