Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) : Lessons from a Decade of Experience 2018

07/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT

This 72-page report reviews the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), an internationally accepted methodology for determining the physical damages, economic losses, and costs of meeting recovery needs after a natural disaster through a government-led process. It focuses on 10 areas of inquiry and draws on a sample of 14 PDNAs. The selected sample represents a range of socioeconomic settings, geographic regions, country circumstances (e.g., inclusion of four small island developing states), and types of disasters (floods, cyclones and hurricanes, earthquakes, landslides, and drought). The report discusses how the increasing number of potential disasters that may be associated with climate change, food insecurity, and uncontrolled public health epidemics.

Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL): Specimen Referral Guidelines and Service User Manual

07/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT

This 37-page document provides information about the Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory (RIPL), which provides a clinical diagnostic service for rare and/or imported pathogens such as pathogenic arboviruses, hemorrhagic fever viruses, and a number of Hazard Group 3 bacterial pathogens, including rickettsiae, Coxiella burnetii, and Bacillus anthracis. It provides guidelines for diagnosing a rare or imported pathogen, submitting specimens, and testing for diseases such as Zika virus and Lyme disease.

Troubling Gap: Why Cyber Security Matters to Public Health Emergency Response

07/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT

This one-hour, 20-minute video is the closing plenary at the 2018 Preparedness Summit and leads viewers through a scenario aimed to help them classify potential threats and identify tactical strategies for responding to a cyberattack in their communities. Presenters discuss how cyber threats have the potential to cripple public health and healthcare infrastructure services, and cyberattacks in communities have exposed patient data and endangered an organization’s ability to respond to public health outbreaks.

CHA (California Hospital Association) Hospital Activation of the Emergency Operations Plan Checklist

07/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT

This five-page checklist will help coordination of efforts and response involvement to an emergency among hospitals, Health Care Coalition partners, emergency medical services, public health agencies, and environmental health departments. Topics include Activation, Assessment, Response Plans, and Resource Requests. The checklist is a supporting resource to activate an Emergency Operations Plan.

Lassa Fever: Origins, Reservoirs, Transmission and Guidelines

07/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT

This resource provides information and guidelines about Lassa fever, an acute viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF). It discusses Epidemiology, Transmission, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, Guidelines, Prevention and Control, and Imported Cases in the United Kingdom.

Marburg Virus Disease: Origins, Reservoirs, Transmission and Guidelines

07/23/2018 12:00 AM EDT

This resource provides information and guidelines about Marburg virus, one of two viruses of the Filovirus family which, along with Ebola virus, can cause a severe and fatal hemorrhagic fever (VHF). It discusses Epidemiology, Symptoms, Transmission, Diagnosis, Treatment, United Kingdom Guidelines, and Prevention and Control.