Social work disaster emergency response within a hospital setting

Social Work in Disaster, a Case Report

Introduction: Natural disasters cause many problems for society. Children are one of the most vulnerable groups that could face severe mental illness and are often separated from their family members and primary caregivers in this situation. Therefore, professional interventions are necessary to reduce the consequence of such situations for children. The purpose of this article is to report a s...

Emergency and disaster preparedness in the healthcare setting: elements of a viable response.

Analysis of media agenda setting during and after Hurricane Katrina: implications for emergency preparedness, disaster response, and disaster policy.

Media agenda setting refers to the deliberate coverage of topics or events with the goal of influencing public opinion and public policy. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of 4 prominent newspapers to examine how the media gathered and distributed news to shape public policy priorities during Hurricane Katrina. The media framed most Hurricane Katrina stories by emphasizing government...

Game-Based Disaster Emergency Response Training

Nationwide, one rescue worker is lost for every two victims rescued in collapsed structure situations; following Sept. 11, 2001, this ratio fell to 1:1. Limited physical facilities are available for training rescue workers in collapsed structure rescue. Our idea is to develop a training game for teaching collapsed structure rescue skills to members of emergency response community. In order to p...

Social Work in a Military Hospital

Psychiatry decided to train selected A.T.S. Officers as Military Social Workers in various psychiatric hospitals. The following is a brief survey of the work done since that time till March, 1946, in the largest military hospital dealing with psychoneurotic cases. The range of cases dealt with has been varied but marital and family difficulties have been amongst the most frequent and difficult....