National Preparedness

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Evidence-Based Practices for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309670388

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Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on Evidence-Based Practices for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Pdf

When communities face complex public health emergencies, state local, tribal, and territorial public health agencies must make difficult decisions regarding how to effectively respond. The public health emergency preparedness and response (PHEPR) system, with its multifaceted mission to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to, and recover from public health emergencies, is inherently complex and encompasses policies, organizations, and programs. Since the events of September 11, 2001, the United States has invested billions of dollars and immeasurable amounts of human capital to develop and enhance public health emergency preparedness and infrastructure to respond to a wide range of public health threats, including infectious diseases, natural disasters, and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear events. Despite the investments in research and the growing body of empirical literature on a range of preparedness and response capabilities and functions, there has been no national-level, comprehensive review and grading of evidence for public health emergency preparedness and response practices comparable to those utilized in medicine and other public health fields. Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response reviews the state of the evidence on PHEPR practices and the improvements necessary to move the field forward and to strengthen the PHEPR system. This publication evaluates PHEPR evidence to understand the balance of benefits and harms of PHEPR practices, with a focus on four main areas of PHEPR: engagement with and training of community-based partners to improve the outcomes of at-risk populations after public health emergencies; activation of a public health emergency operations center; communication of public health alerts and guidance to technical audiences during a public health emergency; and implementation of quarantine to reduce the spread of contagious illness.

Author : World Health Organization,World Health Organization. Global Influenza Programme
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241547680

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Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response by World Health Organization,World Health Organization. Global Influenza Programme Pdf

This guidance is an update of WHO global influenza preparedness plan: the role of WHO and recommendations for national measures before and during pandemics, published March 2005 (WHO/CDS/CSR/GIP/2005.5).

Author : Kay C. Goss
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788148293

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Guide for All-Hazard Emergency Operations Planning by Kay C. Goss Pdf

Meant to aid State & local emergency managers in their efforts to develop & maintain a viable all-hazard emergency operations plan. This guide clarifies the preparedness, response, & short-term recovery planning elements that warrant inclusion in emergency operations plans. It offers the best judgment & recommendations on how to deal with the entire planning process -- from forming a planning team to writing the plan. Specific topics of discussion include: preliminary considerations, the planning process, emergency operations plan format, basic plan content, functional annex content, hazard-unique planning, & linking Federal & State operations.

Author : Bruce Jennings,John D. Arras,Drue H. Barrett,Barbara A. Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780190270742

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Emergency Ethics by Bruce Jennings,John D. Arras,Drue H. Barrett,Barbara A. Ellis Pdf

Emergency Ethics brings together leading scholars in the fields of public health ethics and bioethics to discuss disaster or emergency ethics and ethical aspects of preparedness and response with specific application to public health policy and practice. The book fills a gap in the existing public health ethics literature by providing a comprehensive ethical conception of emergency preparedness as a distinctive form of civic practice brought about by the interrelationships and coordination of many groups, disciplines, and interests and drawing on numerous bodies of knowledge and expertise. It addresses particular aspects of preparedness and response plans, particular decisions that planners and communities have to make, decisions that require balancing many diverse and sometimes conflicting values and identifying and applying a framework of basic ethical principles for preparedness planning, emergency response, and post-disaster recovery. It also explores the relationship between emergency preparedness to other facets of public health practice. The book begins with a broad and synthetic overview of emergency ethics that addresses the central components and ethically significant issues arising in public health preparedness planning, disaster response, and recovery. Following that overview are five chapters that in a philosophically innovative and detailed way delve deeply into important and problematic issues in emergency planning and response, including the allocation of scarce resources, conducting ethical research in the context of public health emergencies, the obligations of public health professionals, communication and engagement with the public, and special moral obligations surrounding vulnerable populations.

Author : Don Philpott,David Casavant
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781598887921

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Emergency Preparedness by Don Philpott,David Casavant Pdf

Emergency Preparedness: A Safety Planning Guide for People, Property, and Business Continuity provides step-by-step instructions for developing prevention and response plans for all types of emergencies and disasters. It helps the reader to create an organization-wide emergency management plan that ensures that all procedures are in place and all equipment and personnel needs are addressed so that your company can respond to an emergency situation quickly and instinctively. You will feel confident that your employees are trained and prepared to put your company's plan into action and protect all workers, property, and the life of the company in the face of any natural or non-natural event.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,U.S. National Committee for the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309045469

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A Safer Future by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,U.S. National Committee for the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction Pdf

Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally. The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.

Author : John Morton
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781612510897

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Next-Generation Homeland Security by John Morton Pdf

Security governance in the second decade of the 21st century is ill-serving the American people. Left uncorrected, civic life and national continuity will remain increasingly at risk. At stake well beyond our shores is the stability and future direction of an international political and economic system dependent on robust and continued U.S. engagement. Outdated hierarchical, industrial structures and processes configured in 1947 for the Cold War no longer provide for the security and resilience of the homeland. Security governance in this post-industrial, digital age of complex interdependencies must transform to anticipate and if necessary manage a range of cascading catastrophic effects, whether wrought by asymmetric adversaries or technological or natural disasters. Security structures and processes that perpetuate a 20th century, top-down, federal-centric governance model offer Americans no more than a single point-of-failure. The strategic environment has changed; the system has not. Changes in policy alone will not bring resolution. U.S. security governance today requires a means to begin the structural and process transformation into what this book calls Network Federalism. Charting the origins and development of borders-out security governance into and through the American Century, the book establishes how an expanding techno-industrial base enabled American hegemony. Turning to the homeland, it introduces a borders-in narrative—the convergence of the functional disciplines of emergency management, civil defense, resource mobilization and counterterrorism into what is now called homeland security. For both policymakers and students a seminal work in the yet-to-be-established homeland security canon, this book records the political dynamics behind the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the impact of Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing development of what is now called the Homeland Security Enterprise. The work makes the case that national security governance has heretofore been one-dimensional, involving horizontal interagency structures and processes at the Federal level. Yet homeland security in this federal republic has a second dimension that is vertical, intergovernmental, involving sovereign states and local governments whose personnel are not in the President’s chain of command. In the strategic environment of the post-industrial 21st century, states thus have a co-equal role in strategy and policy development, resourcing and operational execution to perform security and resilience missions. This book argues that only a Network Federal governance will provide unity of effort to mature the Homeland Security Enterprise. The places to start implementing network federal mechanisms are in the ten FEMA regions. To that end, it recommends establishment of Regional Preparedness Staffs, composed of Federal, state and local personnel serving as co-equals on Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) rotational assignments. These IPAs would form the basis of an intergovernmental and interdisciplinary homeland security professional cadre to build a collaborative national preparedness culture. As facilitators of regional unity of effort with regard to prioritization of risk, planning, resourcing and operational execution, these Regional Preparedness Staffs would provide the Nation with decentralized network nodes enabling security and resilience in this 21st century post-industrial strategic environment.

Author : Linda Young Landesman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Disaster medicine
ISBN : 0763833975

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Emergency Preparedness for Health Professionals by Linda Young Landesman Pdf

Meets CAAHEP standards on emergency preparedness for many health programs. Emergency preparedness has become an important new competency for all allied health professionals - expected by employers and required for accreditation in many areas of allied health. It is now a hot topic in all areas of health career education. Many college instructors are now facing a practical question What should we teach students about emergency preparedness? Paradigm's unique textbook provides an authoritative and effective resource for all health career programs.Projects and activities.Definitions of the unique terms and abbreviations of disaster response.Chapter review questions.Appendix of authoritative Web sites to facilitate Internet research assignments.Online Instructor's Guide includes course planning and assessment tools.

Author : Kenneth S. Trump
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412974318

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Proactive School Security and Emergency Preparedness Planning by Kenneth S. Trump Pdf

Security expert Kenneth S. Trump outlines school security issues and provides nuts-and-bolts strategies for preventing violence and preparing for crises. Includes author's companion website.

Author : Andy Wapling,Chloe Sellwood
Publisher : CABI
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781780644554

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Health Emergency Preparedness and Response by Andy Wapling,Chloe Sellwood Pdf

Intensely practical and down to earth, this timely new text covers the breadth of health emergency preparedness, resilience and response topics in the context of inter-disciplinary and whole society responses to a range of threats. It includes public, private and third sector roles in preparation for and in response to natural and man-made events, such as: major incident planning; infectious disease epidemics and pandemics; natural disasters; terrorist threats; and business and service continuity management. The book builds upon the basics of risk assessment and writing an emergency plan, and then covers inter-agency working, command and control, communication, personal impact and business continuity as well as training, exercises and post-incident follow up. Detailing the full emergency preparedness and civil protection planning cycle, the book is illustrated throughout with real-life examples and case studies from global experts in the field for countries with both advanced and developing healthcare systems. This practical handbook covering the essential aspects of major incident and disaster management is ideal for undergraduate and master's students in emergency management and public health, as well as for practitioners in emergency preparedness and civil protection. It will be valuable to all health practitioners from ambulance, hospital, primary and community care, mental health and public health backgrounds.

Author : Canada. Translation Bureau. Terminology and Linguistic Services Branch,Canada. Department of the Secretary of State,Canada. Department of National Defence,Emergency Preparedness Canada
Publisher : Department of the Secretary of State of Canada : Emergency Preparedness Canada : National Defence
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Canada
ISBN : UIUC:30112104214660

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Emergency Preparedness Glossary by Canada. Translation Bureau. Terminology and Linguistic Services Branch,Canada. Department of the Secretary of State,Canada. Department of National Defence,Emergency Preparedness Canada Pdf

This publication covers terminology relating to emergency planning, population evacuation, health and social services, radioactivity, fallout shelters, continuity of government during wartime, specialized training, and the structures of emergency preparedness organizations.

Author : Tener Goodwin Veenema
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Disaster nursing
ISBN : 0826144179

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Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Terrorism, and Other Hazards by Tener Goodwin Veenema Pdf

Preceded by Disaster nursing and emergency preparedness for chemical, biological, and radiological terrorism and other hazards / Tener Goodwin Veenema, editor. 3rd ed. c2013.

Author : National Governors' Association. Center for Policy Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Assistance in emergencies
ISBN : SRLF:A0000783100

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Comprehensive Emergency Management by National Governors' Association. Center for Policy Research Pdf

This guide highlights the findings of the National Governors' Association (NGA) Emergency Preparedness Project study, recommends an approach to comprehensive state emergency management, and offers pertinent management advice and tools based on hard-won experience in a variety of states. Case histories based on actual experience, as told by governors, their aides, and state emergency office directors, appear as insets throughout the text. These case histories both illustrate and augment the surrounding text. The outcomes of cases describing comprehensive emergency management are hypothetical, as this practice is not yet implemented in most states. Intended for governors and their staff aides, this guide is concerned with emergency management. It is one of a series of five companion publications of the NGA Center for Policy Research.

Author : Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, CPNP, FAAN
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780826108654

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Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards by Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, CPNP, FAAN Pdf

The new edition of this AJN Book of the Year continues to provide nurses with the most comprehensive, current, and reliable information available so they can develop the skills to efficiently and effectively respond to disasters or public health emergencies. Meticulously researched and reviewed by the worldís foremost experts in preparedness for terrorism, natural disasters, and other unanticipated health emergencies, the text has been revised and updated with significant new content, including 10 new chapters and a digital adjunct teacher's guide with exercises and critical thinking questions. This new edition has strengthened its pediatric focus with updated and expanded chapters on caring for children's physical, mental, and behavioral health following a disaster. New chapters address climate change, global complex human emergencies, caring for patients with HIV/AIDS following a disaster, information technology and disaster response, and hospital and emergency department preparedness. The text provides a vast amount of evidence-based information on disaster planning and response for natural and environmental disasters and those caused by chemical, biological, and radiological elements, as well as disaster recovery. It also addresses leadership, management, and policy issues in disaster nursing and deepens our understanding of the importance of protecting mental health throughout the disaster life cycle. Each chapter is clearly formatted and includes Key Messages and Learning Objectives. Appendices present diagnosis and treatment regimens, creating personal disaster plans, a damage assessment guide, a glossary of terms, and more. Consistent with the Federal Disaster Response Framework, the book promotes competency-based expert nursing care during disasters and positive health outcomes for small and large populations. Key Features: Provides 10 new chapters and new content throughout the text Includes digital teacherís guide with exercises and critical thinking questions Consistent with current U.S. federal guidelines for disaster response Disseminates state-of-the-science, evidence-based information New Chapters: Management of the Pregnant Woman and Newborn During Disasters Management of Patients With HIV/AIDS During Disasters Disaster Nursing in Schools and Other Child Congregate Care Settings Global Complex Human Emergencies Climate Change and the Role of the Nurse in Policy and Practice Human Services Needs Following Disaster Events and Disaster Case Management Hospital and Emergency Department Preparedness National Nurse Preparedness: Achieving Competency-Based Expert Practice Medical Countermeasures Dispensing

Author : National Governors' Association. Emergency Preparedness Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Assistance in emergencies
ISBN : MINN:30000010442915

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State Comprehensive Emergency Management by National Governors' Association. Emergency Preparedness Project Pdf