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Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Information and Emergency Response



04/05/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Published: 4/5/2019. This 41-minute webinar, one of a series of flood webinars from the University of Nebraska Medical Center Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska, presents helpful information and resources on how to deal with the mental health effects in the aftermath of a natural disaster. It discusses how stress affects the human body, the importance of resilience, and how to de-stress and practice mindfulness. (Video or Multimedia)
04/04/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Published: 4/4/2019. This 30-minute webinar, one of a series of flood webinars from the University of Nebraska Medical Center Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska, discusses the impacts on schools and students of the floods in Nebraska in March 2019, which impacted 52 percent of school districts. It details responses by age group, what to watch for in school-age children, and how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) manifests in children. (Video or Multimedia)
04/03/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Published: 4/3/2019. This 35-minute webinar, one of a series of flood webinars from the University of Nebraska Medical Center Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska, discusses how children respond to natural disasters, and how to talk to them about natural disasters. It discusses why anxiety in children is normal after a traumatic event, and what the short-terms signs of that anxiety are. It details steps to take to help children cope in the aftermath of a natural disaster. (Video or Multimedia)
04/02/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Published: 4/2/2019. In this 22-minute webinar, which is one of a series of flood webinars from the University of Nebraska Medical Center Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska, the speaker discusses the anxiety that follows a natural disaster, and the characteristics of anxiety, stress disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in general and after a natural disaster. She details who is most at risk for PTSD, and how to monitor people for any ongoing difficulty with functioning following a disaster. (Video or Multimedia)
04/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 4/2019. This 22-page document provides final guidance to government stakeholders on testing to extend the expiration date—under section 564A(b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act—of stockpiled doxycycline tablets and capsules for public health emergency preparedness and response purposes for an anthrax emergency. It applies to both doxycycline monohydrate and doxycycline hyclate tablets and capsules equivalent to 50 mg and 100 mg of doxycycline that are indicated for post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) or treatment of inhalational anthrax. (PDF)
04/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Published: 4/2019. This 37-minute webinar, one of a series of flood webinars from the University of Nebraska Medical Center Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska, details the components of trauma and the events that trigger trauma, including natural disasters. It discusses the guilt that comes from surviving or not being affected by a traumatic event, how to cope after a traumatic event, and what people can do for each other and their communities following a traumatic event. (Video or Multimedia)
03/29/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). Published: 3/29/2019. This 47-minute webinar, one of a series of flood webinars from the University of Nebraska Medical Center Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska, focuses on the grief and depression that follow a natural disaster, and in particular, the floods of March 2019. It discusses the stages of disaster recovery, the symptoms and stages of grief, and how the type of loss matters in how people grieve. (Video or Multimedia)
03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 3/2019. This training defines the concept and requirements for addressing the access and functional needs of at-risk individuals, and provides tools and resources to help address the access and functional needs of at-risk individuals in the community during disaster preparedness, response, and recovery activities. It lists the different types of at-risk populations with access and functional needs, and identifies federal guidance, legal requirements, and executive orders that reinforce this work. (Video or Multimedia)
01/01/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: American Public Health Association (APHA). Published: 2019. Caring for Our Children (CFOC) is a collection of national standards that represent the best practices, based on evidence, expertise, and experience, for quality health and safety policies and practices for today's early care and education settings. This includes the CFOC online standards database. The collection includes disaster and emergency preparedness standards. Other sponsors are the American Academy of Pediatrics, and National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education. (Text)
07/05/2018 12:00 AM EDT

Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Published: 7/5/2018. This web page provides information about the Procleix Zika Virus Assay, which is a qualitative in vitro nucleic acid test for the detection of Zika Virus (ZIKV) RNA in plasma specimens from individual human donors, including volunteer donors of whole blood and blood components for transfusion. It is intended for use in testing individual donor samples. (Text)

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