Community Involvement in Emergency Preparedness

Community emergency/disaster preparedness.

Integrating hospitals into community emergency preparedness planning.

BACKGROUND Strong community linkages are essential to a health care organization's overall preparedness for emergencies. OBJECTIVE To assess community emergency preparedness linkages among hospitals, public health officials, and first responders and to investigate the influence of community hazards, previous preparation for an event requiring national security oversight, and experience respon...

Bioterrorism preparedness. II: The community and emergency medical services systems.

Disaster planning is an arduous task. Perhaps no form of disaster is more difficult to prepare for than one resulting from the intentional, covert release of a biological pathogen or toxin. The complexities of response operations and the perils of inadequate preparation cannot be overemphasized. Even with detailed planning, deviations from anticipated emergency operations plans are likely to oc...

Participatory public health systems research: value of community involvement in a study series in mental health emergency preparedness.

BACKGROUND Concerns have arisen over recent years about the absence of empirically derived evidence on which to base policy and practice in the public health system, in general, and to meet the challenge of public health emergency preparedness, in particular. Related issues include the challenge of disaster-caused, behavioral health surge, and the frequent exclusion of populations from studies ...

Emergency preparedness and disability.