Disaster preparedness and response: Challenges for Australian public health nurses - A literature review

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippa Rokkas ◽  
Victoria Cornell ◽  
Malinda Steenkamp
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Public Health Nurses ◽  
Disaster Preparedness And Response

Disaster preparedness and response: Implications for public health nurses

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Andrea Jennings-Sanders, Dr.PH, RN
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local State ◽  
Public Health Nurses ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Public Health Officials ◽  
Disaster Preparedness And Response

Disasters are becoming more of an integral aspect of life in the United States and in other countries. Public health nurses are in the forefront of providing health services to people affected by disasters. Thus, it is essential that all public health nurses have access to information that will assist them in disaster situations. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how the Framework for Public Health Nurses: Interventions Model can be utilized for planning and responding to disasters. The interventions in the model are directly applicable to disaster situations and, in addition, raise questions on issues that need to be addressed by local, state, and federal public health officials.

Disaster Evaluation Research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund M. Ricci ◽  
Ernesto A. Pretto, Jr. ◽  
Knut Ole Sundnes
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Evaluation Research ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Scientific Evaluation ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
Health Response ◽  
Disaster Preparedness And Response

The ultimate hope and great challenge undertaken by the authors of this volume is to improve disaster preparedness and response efforts globally by providing a standardized way to conduct rigorous and comprehensive scientific evaluative studies of the medical and public health response to these horrific events. It is our strongly held belief that the framework for the conduct of evaluative studies, as developed by specialists in scientific evaluation, offers the most appropriate and comprehensive structure for such studies. Our ‘eight-step approach’ is based upon a conceptual framework that is now widely used by health organizations globally as a basis for the evaluation of community-based medical and public health programs. We contend that many more disaster-related injuries and deaths can be prevented if the concepts and methods of evaluation science are applied to disaster events. In Part 1 of this book we describe the basic concepts and scientific methods used by program evaluation scientists to assess the structure, process, and outcomes of medical and public health interventions. In addition, a detailed description of a comprehensive medical and public health response system is described. In Part 2 we present an eight-step model for conducting an evaluative study of the response, again with a focus on the medical and public health components. Ethical issues that come into play in the conduct of disaster evaluative disaster research, and how these should be addressed, are the focus of Chapter 13. The final chapter offers a look to the future as new technology for data collection becomes available. We are not so naïve as to believe that disaster preparedness and response will change as a direct result of the availability of scientifically conducted assessments. Change requires a double pronged commitment—leaders from both the ranks of government and of the health professions must carefully consider, fund, and adopt policy positions and programs that are based upon the findings and recommendations that emerge from scientific evaluation studies. That is the most certain pathway to a better future.

Role of Academic Institutions in Community Disaster Response Since September 11, 2001

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 218-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne L. Dunlop ◽  
Kristi M. Logue ◽  
Gerald Beltran ◽  
Alexander P. Isakov
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Emergency Management ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Disaster Preparedness And Response

ABSTRACTObjective: To describe the role of academic institutions in the community response to Federal Emergency Management Agency–declared disasters from September 11, 2001, to February 1, 2009.Methods: We conducted a review of the published literature and Internet reports to identify academic institutions that participated in the community response to disaster events between September 11, 2001, to February 1, 2009, inclusive. From retrieved reports, we abstracted the identity of the academic institutions and the resources and services each provided. We characterized the resources and services in terms of their contribution to established constructs of community disaster resilience and disaster preparedness and response.Results: Between September 11, 2001, and February 1, 2009, there were 98 published or Internet-accessible reports describing 106 instances in which academic institutions participated in the community response to 11 Federal Emergency Management Agency–declared disaster events that occurred between September 11, 2001, and February 1, 2009. Academic institutions included academic health centers and community teaching hospitals; schools of medicine, nursing, and public health; schools with graduate programs such as engineering and psychology; and 4-year programs. The services and resources provided by the academic institutions as part of the community disaster response could be categorized as contributing to community disaster resilience by reducing the consequences or likelihood of an event or to specific dimensions of public health preparedness and response, or both. The most common dimensions addressed by academic institutions (in order of occurrence) were resource management, enabling and sustaining a public health response, information capacity management, and performance evaluation.Conclusions: Since September 11, 2001, the participation of academic institutions in community disaster response has contributed to community resilience and the achievement of specific dimensions of disaster preparedness and response.(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2011;5:218–226)

Information Technology and Data Systems in Disaster Preparedness for Healthcare and the Broader Community

2011 ◽  
pp. 1582-1599
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Quiram ◽  
Cara L. Pennel ◽  
S. Kay Carpender
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Data Systems ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
Community Information ◽  
Disaster Preparedness And Response

In the healthcare and public health community, information technology and data management tools are indispensable in preventing, preparing for, responding to, and recovering from public health emergencies, both natural and manmade. This chapter is divided into three sections. The first section discusses various uses of health technology and data systems in disaster preparedness and response. The second section expounds on technological applications to train healthcare staff for their roles and responsibilities in delivering critical health services during a disaster, as well as to integrate healthcare organizations and providers into the broader community planning and response processes. The chapter concludes with a model that has been implemented to integrate and train the broader group of community stakeholders, including healthcare organizations and providers, in disaster preparedness and response.

Telehealth Tools for Public Health, Emergency, or Disaster Preparedness and Response: A Summary Report

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale C. Alverson ◽  
Karen Edison ◽  
Larry Flournoy ◽  
Brenda Korte ◽  
Charles Magruder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Summary Report ◽  
Disaster Preparedness And Response

scholarly journals (A105) A Core Curriculum for Nurses in Disaster Preparedness and Response

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s29-s29 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Chang ◽  
S.M. Briggs
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Massachusetts General Hospital ◽  
Disaster Medicine ◽  
Incident Command ◽  
Medical Response ◽  
Field Triage ◽  
Disaster Preparedness And Response

BackgroundNurses play an essential role in disaster response. All health care responders, including nurses, must have knowledge of the key principles of disaster medicine. The International Trauma and Disaster Institute (ITDI) at Massachusetts General Hospital has developed a core curriculum for Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) management. The curriculum provides all members of the multidisciplinary disaster team with the fundamentals of the MCI response. The proposed concurrent session will report on understanding of the fundamental knowledge in disaster medicine and preparedness for nurses in local and international disaster responses.Discussion and ObservationsDisasters follow no rules. Traditionally, medical providers have held the erroneous belief that all disasters are different, especially those involving terrorism. In reality, all disasters, regardless of etiology, have similar medical and public health consequences. A consistent medical approach to disasters, based on an understanding of their common features and the response they require, is becoming the accepted practice throughout the world. This strategy, called the MCI response, has the primary objective of reducing the mortality/morbidity caused by the disaster. The Advanced Disaster Medical Response (ADMR) Course, available in eight languages, including Chinese, is designed to train nurses in the ABC's of basic medical and public health disaster care. The delivery of optimal care in a disaster relies on a common understanding of each health professional's role and common mastery of defined essentials of disaster response such as the Incident Command System, field triage, decontamination, care of specific injuries, environmental considerations, psychological response to disasters, and care of the dead and their families. Understanding key principles and training in medical disaster response will guide nurses in disaster preparedness and response to future disasters.

scholarly journals Extraordinary attention, ordinary neglect: the high cost of disaster preparedness and response

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Morbidity And Mortality ◽  
Funding Allocation ◽  
Health Events ◽  
Intangible Costs ◽  
Disaster Preparedness And Response ◽  
The U.S

AbstractBackgroundFunds allocated to disaster preparedness and response in the U.S. have grown rapidly in recent decades. This analysis examines the ratio of cost per outcome of public health events classified as disasters and those not classified as disasters, e.g., smoking-related morbidity and mortality.MethodsMortality is taken as an outcome metric; the validity of this measure is assessed by examination of ratios of tangible and intangible costs of disaster and non-disaster outcomes to mortality from two conditions, using available data. The relative allocation of CDC funding to disaster and non-disaster events is assumed to conservatively represent the U.S. overall relative funding allocation.ResultsNon-disaster deaths are 2,500 more likely than disaster deaths; we allocate 370 times more funding per disaster death than we do per non-disaster death.ConclusionThe rationality of this implicit decision be reconsidered.

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