11/06/2018 12:00 AM EST
Source: University of Washington, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice (NWCPH). Published: 9/25/2018. This one-hour webinar discusses how the Missoula City-County Health Department supported public health during prolonged smoke events of the 2017 summer wildfire season. Participants will learn about the threats wildfire smoke poses to individuals and public health systems, clean air intervention strategies for communities prone to wildfires and smoke events, and how to identify potential community and funding partners to address health threats associated with wildfires. (Video or Multimedia)
11/06/2018 12:00 AM EST
Source: Australian Government, Attorney-General's Department, Australian Emergency Management. Published: 8/2018. This 96-page handbook is structured to provide managers of crowded places an overarching framework for risk management, communication, and incident and emergency planning. It gives context to advice relating to security, site safety, and health issues, including food and water security, waste management, and disease control. The guidance also reflects the heightened focus in Australia and globally on deliberate and hostile acts, including terrorist incidents. (PDF)
11/06/2018 12:00 AM EST
Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Emergency Medical Services (EMS). Published: 2/16/2018. This 52-minute webinar features three speakers who share their experiences developing the Model Uniform Core Criteria for Mass Casualty Incident Triage (MUCC) and the instructional guidelines, and lessons learned from piloting their use. The criteria were developed to help ensure consistency when responding to mass casualty incidents, which often don't obey jurisdictional boundaries, with responses often involving multiple agencies, regions, and even states. (Video or Multimedia)
11/06/2018 12:00 AM EST
Source: Boston University (BU). Published: 1/31/2018. This one-hour, eight-minute presentation focuses on the policy and treatment implications of the opioid crisis' clinical realities within the larger context of social and cultural drivers of addiction. It discusses how federal, state, and local governments grappling with solutions have encountered both promising strategies and unexpected difficulties. Among the latter are the challenges of engaging patients in treatment; the paradoxes of naloxone administration; the provision of quality care in office-based, medication-assisted treatment; and the rational use of opioid painkillers where needed while curtailing over-prescribing. (Video or Multimedia)
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