Community engagement in public health emergency preparedness

Health Departments’ Engagement in Emergency Preparedness Activities: The Influence of Health Informatics Capacity

Background Local health departments (LHDs) operate in a complex and dynamic public health landscape, with changing demands on their emergency response capacities. Informatics capacities might play an instrumental role in aiding LHDs emergency preparedness. This study aimed to explore the extent to which LHDs’ informatics capacities are associated with their activity level in emergency preparedn...

Conceptualizing and defining public health emergency preparedness.

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Community emergency/disaster preparedness.

health departments’ engagement in emergency preparedness activities: the influence of health informatics capacity

background local health departments (lhds) operate in a complex and dynamic public health landscape, with changing demands on their emergency response capacities. informatics capacities might play an instrumental role in aiding lhds emergency preparedness. this study aimed to explore the extent to which lhds’ informatics capacities are associated with their activity level in emergency preparedn...

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 ...