Background: The Cyber Preparedness Continuum CNA’s Safety and Security Division conducted a Cyber Preparedness Workshop on April 25, 2013, at CNA’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The workshop brought together emergency management and cybersecurity stakeholders, drawn from both the public and private sectors, to discuss cyber preparedness. Discussions during the workshop centered around t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate effectiveness of a community-based preparedness program for flash floods. DESIGN A controlled community intervention trial with preassessment and postassessment. SETTING Fifteen intervention villages and 16 control villages in Golestan province of Iran. PARTICIPANTS People more than six years of age. INTERVENTION Intervention program consisted assembling Village Di...

objective: to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and preparedness of mahabad red crescent society volunteers in dealing with chemical attacks. methods: this prospective cross-sectional study was conducted on 120 red crescent society volunteers in mahabad city, iran, during 2014-2015.the knowledge of the volunteers was evaluated and rated using a questionnaire as poor, moderate, and good. also, t...

The concept of public health legal preparedness grew out of the public health emergency preparedness movement, but was conceptualized more broadly to be utilized to achieve full public health legal preparedness for all types of public health threats. This article analyzes the need to refocus public health legal preparedness to include all areas of public health law and presents a new model for ...

Disasters pose a substantial risk to people’s health and well-being on global scale. Community-based training the initial response traffic accidents has considerable impact reducing morbidity mortality. There is no information most effective type of community-based for such incidents or how integrate this into disaster response. The goal study was characterize content first aid its effect provi...

Background: Disasters are stressful events not only for individuals who suffer from personal loss but also for the community at large. It seems necessary to study the mental health of the community in disaster situations so as to endorse their health, care planning and prevent disorders. A pure understanding of the community mental health preparedness, based on the experiences and perceptions o...

BACKGROUND Sufficient preparedness is important for transitions to workplace participation and learning in clinical settings. This study aims to analyse medical students' preparedness for early clerkships using a three-dimensional, socio-cognitive, theory-based model of preparedness anchored in specific professional activities and their supervision level. METHODS Medical students from a compe...

Introduction: The occurrence of mass casualty incidents is increasing globally. Training an essential cornerstone in achieving disaster preparedness, yet studies show that medical first responders perceive their level readiness to face as inadequate. As real-world training exercises can be characterized resource-intensive terms cost and time, virtual environments have been highlighted a potenti...

The Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Preparedness initiative strives to implement, on an accelerated pace, a consistent national network of information systems that will support public health in being prepared for public health emergencies. Using the principles and practices of the broader PHIN initiative, PHIN Preparedness concentrates in the short term on ensuring that all public heal...

After the events of September 11, 2001, federal funding for state public health preparedness programs increased from $67 million in fiscal year (FY) 2001 to approximately $1 billion in FY 2002. These funds were intended to support preparedness for and response to terrorism, infectious disease outbreaks, and other public health threats and emergencies. The Council of State and Territorial Epidem...