نتایج جستجو برای: emergency preparedness

تعداد نتایج: 147487  

Journal: :Pediatrics 2006
David Markenson Sally Reynolds

For decades, emergency planning for natural disasters, public health emergencies, workplace accidents, and other calamities has been the responsibility of government agencies on all levels and certain nongovernment organizations such as the American Red Cross. In the case of terrorism, however, entirely new approaches to emergency planning are under development for a variety of reasons. Terrori...

2014

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...

Journal: :International journal of radiation biology 2017
Octávia Monteiro Gil Pedro Vaz Horst Romm Cinzia De Angelis Ana Catarina Antunes Joan-Francesc Barquinero Christina Beinke Emanuela Bortolin Christopher Ian Burbidge Alexandra Cucu Sara Della Monaca Mercedes Moreno Domene Paola Fattibene Eric Gregoire Valeria Hadjidekova Ulrike Kulka Carita Lindholm Roberta Meschini Radhia M'Kacher Jayne Moquet Ursula Oestreicher Fabrizio Palitti Gabriel Pantelias Alegria Montoro Pastor Irina-Anca Popescu Maria Cristina Quattrini Michelle Ricoul Kai Rothkamm Laure Sabatier Natividad Sebastià Sylwester Sommer Georgia Terzoudi Antonella Testa François Trompier Anne Vral

PURPOSE To identify and assess, among the participants in the RENEB (Realizing the European Network of Biodosimetry) project, the emergency preparedness, response capabilities and resources that can be deployed in the event of a radiological or nuclear accident/incident affecting a large number of individuals. These capabilities include available biodosimetry techniques, infrastructure, human r...

Journal: :iranian rehabilitation journal 0
mohammad khandan department of ergonomics, university of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences, tehran, iran. shahram vosoughi department of health sciences, faculty of health, safety and environment, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. maryam maghsoudipour department of ergonomics, university of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences, tehran, iran.

objectives: the objective of this study is to evaluate the safety climate as an important part of macroergonomics domains and to determine the importance of each safety climate factor in an iranian company. methods: for data gathering, the researchers used macroergonomic organizational questionnaire survey (moqs) method. for conducting this method we applied safety climate questionnaire which h...

Journal: :Public health reports 2014
F Dalnoki-Veress Chris McKallagat Amy Klebesadal

OBJECTIVE We tested the Analytical Hierarchy Process tool for its use in public health to identify potential gaps in emergency preparedness by local health departments (LHDs) in California and Hawaii during a radiological emergency. METHODS We developed a dedicated tool called All-Hazards Preparedness Squared (AHP2) that can be used by those who are responsible for all-hazards preparedness pl...

2010
Heather Allen Rebecca Katz

THE TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES OF POPULATION SCIENCES ARE EXTREMELY RELEVANT TO THE DISCIPLINE OF PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS: protecting and securing the population's health requires information about that population. While related fields such as security studies have successfully integrated demographic tools into their research and literature, the theoretical and practical connection betwe...

Journal: :BMJ open 2015
Weilan Xu Yanhua Hao Qunhong Wu Ning Ning Jia You Chaojie Liu Mingli Jiao Lijun Gao Zheng Kang Libo Liang Hong Sun Yu Cui Ye Li Xiaonan Han Xin Fang Xiyan Zhao Man Hu Ding Ding Hao Gao Jun Lu

OBJECTIVE This article aims to identify factors that shape the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of community residents in China's Heilongjiang province towards emergency preparedness. Findings of such a study may provide evidence to support the development of effective public risk communication strategies and education campaigns. DESIGN A cross-sectional household questionnaire survey was ...

Journal: :Journal of emergency management 2014
Jonas Nguh

Ever since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the federal government increased funding for emergency preparedness. However, the literature continues to document several areas of weaknesses in public health emergency management by local health departments (LHD). This literature review discusses the role of information technology (IT) for emergency preparedness by LHDs. The focus areas for this revie...

Journal: :Ghana medical journal 2012
I D Norman M Aikins F N Binka K M Nyarko

OBJECTIVE This paper assessed the emergency preparedness programs of health facilities for all-risks but focused on Road Traffic Accidents, (RTA) resulting in surge demand. It adopted W. H. O checklist covering hospital preparedness, equipment, manpower and surge capacity planning as best practices for the mitigation of public health emergencies. METHOD This is a cross-sectional study of purp...

Journal: :Journal of homeland security and emergency management 2014
Amesh A Adalja Tara Kirk Sell Sanjana J Ravi Katie Minton Ryan Morhard

OBJECTIVES Each of the nuclear power plants in the US is encircled by an Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ). Within each EPZ, government officials, utility professionals, emergency managers, and public health practitioners collectively conduct extensive planning, exercises, and outreach to better protect their communities in the event of a nuclear accident. Our objective was to conduct a cross-secti...

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