Quarantine
Planning for a public health emergencyMeasures to detect and track public health emergenciesDeclaring a state of public health emergencySpecial powers during a state of public health emergency: control of propertySpecial…
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Disaster Health Education and Training:
Figure 2.1. National Preparedness System Process This process begins with the identification of threats and hazards. These include: 1) a risk assessment (vulnerability and likelihood of occurrence); 2) determining the…
Climate Change
Figure 4.1. Climate Data Sets Showing Global Temperature Increase since 1850 (MLOST is the Merged Land-Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis produced by the National Climatic Center of the National Oceanic and…
Disaster Research and Epidemiology
International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters [http://www.ijmed.org/] Mass Emergencies [http://www.massemergencies.org/]1970–presentCenter for Disease Control, and later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Public health, especially epidemiologyDescriptive and some explanatory…
Ethical Issues in Disaster Medicine
Figure 7.1. Front page of the Boston Globe describing the attack at the Boston Marathon. The bombs were designed to inflict the most damage to the runners’ legs. Because the…
Decontamination
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> 16 Decontamination Howard W. Levitin and Christopher A. Kahn Overview Hazardous materials, in various quantities and configurations, are ubiquitous throughout the world. They are key ingredients…
Syndromic Surveillance
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> 13 Syndromic Surveillance Gary A. Roselle Overview Syndromic surveillance has been defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as “a process that…
Legislative Authorities and Regulatory Issues
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> 12 Legislative Authorities and Regulatory Issues Ernest B. Abbott and Jeffrey H. Luk Overview Catastrophic disasters disrupt the health and medical system in a variety of…
Disaster Behavioral Health
Figure 9.1. The American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health System PsySTART Model. Used with permission from the American Red Cross. In the absence of rapid triage and coordination between systems,…
Community Resilience
html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” xmlns:mml=”http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML” xmlns:epub=”http://www.idpf.org/2007/ops”> 6 Community Resilience Rose L. Pfefferbaum, Richard Reed, and Betty Pfefferbaum Overview Disaster managers embrace the concept of community resilience, sometimes as a strategy and sometimes…
