Four Areas for Action There are four areas created to accomplish timely action to address the global dimensions of US preparedness. Those areas are as follows:
• Sensitize more US clinicians and public health departments to the global nature of diseases when they are treating or learning about patients with unusual illnesses, reporting cases through the surveillance system, responding to outbreaks, or helping Americans prepare for international travel.
• Learn from the successful experiences of other countries as one means to improve US public health preparedness and disaster management.
• Ensure that US investments in global health are effective, efficient, and sustainable.
• Think globally while acting locally.
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It must be effective otherwise we would be wasting millions of taxpayer’s moneys and not preventing the loss of life. We must ensure that it is sustainable because the goal is to have continued coverage and care not just a temporary fix. The other areas of action are important but they can all benefit from the one chosen. We cannot think globally while acting locally if we do not have effective, efficient and sustainable plans/programs. Before we try to influence the world, we should have a solid plan that other countries can admire and want to adopt. Learning from the successful experiences of other countries disaster management is an important tool. Lessons learned in any situation is valuable. In the military, we conduct After Action Reviews (AARs) after every mission and training exercise to see what lessons we learned good or bad, in order to improve our techniques and procedures. The end goal is to develop an efficient, effective and sustainable plan of operation, which is why that is the most important area of action. The first area of action talks about the importance of providers to report illnesses that they encounter which is also important. Emerging and re-emerging infectious disease (EID) events can have devastating human, animal and environmental health impacts. The emergence of EIDs has been associated with interconnected economic,
.... The lessons learned from the many events will provide an extensive knowledge base and benchmark that all emergency managers can draw from to better position citizens for survival of large scale evacuations and sheltering events.
The National response plan outlines four key actions the disaster coordinator should take. They are gaining and maintaining situational awareness, activate and deploy key resources and capabilities, coordinating response actions and demobilizing. Throughout the response it is essential that responders have access to critical information. During the initial response effort the situation is will change rapidly. Situational awareness starts at the incident site. For this reason it is essential that decision makers have access to the right information at the right time. By establishing an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) all key responders are brought ...
Both man-made and natural disasters are often devastating, resource draining and disruptive. Having a basic plan ready for these types of disaster events is key to the success of executing and implementing, as well as assessing the aftermath. There are many different ways to create an emergency operations plan (EOP) to encompass a natural and/or man-made disaster, including following the six stage planning process, collection of information, and identification of threats and hazards. The most important aspect of the US emergency management system in preparing for, mitigating, and responding to man-made and natural disasters is the creation, implementation and assessment of a community’s EOP.
There are many areas of the world where the most basic needs like clean drinking water, proper sanitation and medical care are just not available. When disaster strikes, the people living in these already disadvantaged areas are thrust into situations where death is almost always imminent. Reach Out WorldWide (“ROWW”) was started by a group of 6 men in California. They flew to Haiti and volunteered to help in whatever way they could after a massive earthquake devastated the country on January 12, 2010. While working in Haiti as medical aid volunteers, the group recognized the need for skilled people, supplies and urgency for a faster response when natural disasters strike.
middle of paper ... ... More awareness about valley fever among the general community and among healthcare providers is needed. Increased awareness can help avoid missed diagnoses. For example, one study showed that valley fever patients who knew about the disease before visiting a doctor were more likely to ask to be tested and were diagnosed sooner than patients who didn’t know about the disease.
Furthermore, reporting communicable diseases to the local health department can help detect outbreaks and prevent secondary transmission. This is especially true when there is an outbreak of illnesses, such as Encephalitis, smallpox, and rabies. These illnesses are warrant prompt and need to be reported immediately (2017). It is the responsibility of physicians, nurses, laboratory directors, infection and control practitioners, health care facilities, state institutions, and schools to report communicable
Many states and colonies across the globe issued detailed sets of directives to their residents on what exactly they should do if they come into contact with the illness. One such example is the directive issued by T.W.H. Holmes, the Secretary of the Victoria Board of Public Health in Australia. The directive details the symptoms, complications, treatment, and prevention of the disease. Something very common during the outbreak of any pandemic is the use of quarantines to separate the sick and the healthy. In fact, that is the first order for prevention of disease in T.W.H. Holme...
...also putting together vaccines and other medications on other diseases that could possibly cause an outbreak
The Canadian Red Cross is proud to support humanitarian effort around the globe. Each year, more than 200 million people are effected by disasters and emergencies, and Canadian humanitarian actors continue to provide life-saving assistance to the most vulnerable people around the world. The Canadian Red Cross is one of many humanitarian organizations making contributions to health in emergencies. No single country can bear the burden of a humanitarian crisis alone. Collaboration and coordination is crucial to continue to respond effectively to the needs at the source of humanitarian crises. The humanitarian impacts of disaster, conflict, and health emergencies are extraordinary and require a collaborative, coordinated approach involving countries,
An increased vigilance in monitoring trends of infectious diseases, implementing prevention and treatment bundles, complying with evidence based guidelines in improving care, and proper reporting through an efficient surveillance system cannot be overlooked. Advanced practice professionals in infection prevention and control with solid knowledge, skills, and expertise are essential in implementing a successful program. Implementing a program that incorporates the clinical expertise and skills of the responsible individual will be beneficial on an institutional level (Holmes, Castro-Sanchez & Ahmad, 2015). Instituting a successful program led by competent professionals not only improve care delivery, but also will lower overall health care cost.
... CDC has also trained U.S. health care facilities to deal with Ebola emergencies, and communicate through the “Health Alert Network, the Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity, and a variety of existing tools and mechanisms (Office of the Press Secretary 2014)”. The Ebola epidemic helps remind the U.S. that other nations are there to work with them, and unite to prevent a rapidly growing disease. CDC partners with programs from other nations, such as the Global Disease Detection Centers, and the Field Epidemiology Training Program, which work to stop the Ebola virus. Information systems will grow stronger, more partnerships dedicated to stopping outbreaks will be formed, and laboratory security will also grow.
With advanced technology, nursing is more connected and interdependent. The nursing professional unit is able to lobby to both local and international community organizations on behalf of the African community from anywhere in the world. Funding and education are necessary for this well needed community in order to assist in a caring and positive manner to combat their diagnosis of diabetes or related symptoms. With the increase in world-wide travel, infectious diseases now spread across the world at an alarming rate. Madeline Leininger, a well-known theorist in nursing, stated that “globalization implies an ethical and moral obligation for professional nurses to enter and function in a worldwide community” (Nursing Theories, 2011b).
After the smallpox pandemic, science has done a lot to cure and control most other outbreaks of diseases. But with the shortage of healthcare and medication in the developing regions, what is there to stop many diseases from spreading. In Kenya, there is only 1 doctor for over 5000 people. How does 1 doctor make sure 5000 people are not in trouble with a live-threatening disease?
The Department of US health concerns works towards improving the health status of citizens across the political and economic regimes of United States of America. The perspectives that are explored on global health include medicine, where path...
Of the four phases of emergency management, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery, perhaps the place that individuals can make the biggest difference in their own state of resiliency and survival of a disaster is in the preparedness phase. Being prepared before a disaster strikes makes sense yet many people fail to take even simple, precautionary steps to reduce the consequences of destruction and mayhem produced by natural events such as earthquakes, volcanos and tornados (see Paton et al, 2001, Mileti and Peek, 2002; Tierney, 1993, Tierney et al, 2001).