INTRODUCTION Surge capacity for optimization of access to hospital beds is a limiting factor in response to catastrophic events. Medical facilities, communication tools, manpower, and resource reserves exist to respond to these events. However, these factors may not be optimally functioning to generate an effective and efficient surge response. The objective was to improve the function of these...

Nearly 10 years ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Environmental Health Ser­ vices Branch (EHSB) delivered the first En­ vironmental Health Training in Emergency Response (EHTER) Awareness Level course at the National Environmental Health Associa­ tion’s 2006 Annual Educational Conference & Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas. Based on the tremendous success of this intr...

Populations affected by disaster increase the demand on emergency response and public health systems and on acute care hospitals, often causing disruptions of services. Household preparedness measures, such as having a 3-day supply of food, water, and medication and a written household evacuation plan, can improve a population's ability to cope with service disruption, decreasing the number of ...

This study aimed to determine the level of emergency procedure compliance small lodging establishments in Tagum City terms preparedness, response and recovery what action plan shall be made based on result study. The researchers used quantitative non-experimental research design utilizing a descriptive explore City. In this study, respondents are customers Random sampling was participants. Ther...

OBJECTIVE To describe a pilot program, Plan B Online Prescription Access, to provide easy access to prescriptions for emergency contraception via the Internet. STUDY DESIGN We measured electronic prescriptions for Plan B (Duramed Pharmaceuticals, Cincinnati, Ohio) by month over time. Pharmacists faxed patient-generated prescriptions back to the Department of Public Health for confirmation. ...

Collaboration is essential for dealing with natural and technological hazards disasters the consequences of terrorism. Generally, it accepted that all administrative agencies require a combination transactional transformational leaders, especially within emergency management agencies. However, conflicts arose from creating Department Homeland Security (DHS) to impose command control system on c...

As the number of people involved in a decision-making problem increases, complexity group (GDM) process increases accordingly. The size participants and heterogeneous information have important effects on consensus reaching GDM. To deal with these two issues, traditional methods divide large groups into smaller ones to reduce scale GDM translate uniform format handle heterogeneity problem. Thes...