viernes, 28 de junio de 2019

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Information and Emergency Response

06/25/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 6/25/2019. This Topic Collection from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange), updated in June 2019, provides resources that can help healthcare facilities, healthcare coalitions, and other health and medical providers to consider the specialized care and resources needed for children prior to, during, and after an incident. Resources are categorized in topics that include Access and Functional Needs; Burns; Explosives and Mass Shootings; Family Reunification and Support; Healthcare Facility Evacuation/ Sheltering; and Hospital Surge Capacity and Immediate Bed Availability. (Text)
06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Published: 6/2019. This data note examines the public’s knowledge and concerns about antibiotic resistance, a topic of increasing importance to both the United States and the wider global health community. Figures describe statistics that include Most Say Overuse Of Antibiotics Is A Major Problem; One-Third Say They Are Very Worried About Personal Effects Of Opioid Epidemic, Fewer Say So About Antibiotic Resistance; and Most Of The Public Unaware Antibiotic Resistance Is Unrelated To The Outbreak Of Viruses Such As Measles. (Text)
06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI). Published: 6/2019. This 24-page report presents key findings and recommendations for urgent improvements to avoid catastrophic consequences of deliberate and other high-consequence biological events. It provides key findings from a tabletop exercise designed to explore command, control, and coordination of an international response to an unusual and rapidly spreading biological event, and and offers recommendations from the event organizers, shaped around four emergent themes: International Coordination, Information Sharing, Investigation and Attribution, and Financing for Response and Preparedness. (PDF)
06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 6/2019. In this 59-page report, the authors characterize the nature of community citizen science and its potential uses, identify implementation needs and challenges, conceptualize pathways through which community citizen science could achieve policy and community impacts, and elucidate challenges that might impede people from achieving their goals. The authors used findings from disaster response and recovery case studies to identify specific considerations for community citizen science implementation and impacts. (PDF)
05/07/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Alabama Department of Public Health. Published: 5/7/2019. Participants in this one-hour, 28-minute course will learn to identify factors that have contributed to an increase in opiate use in the United States, and list principles of harm reduction in approaching active drug users. The webinar also discusses commonly used opiate-substitution drugs used in Medication-Assisted Therapy (MAT), and strategies to use when implementing an overdose prevention strategy. (Video or Multimedia)
04/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Alabama Department of Public Health. Published: 4/2019. This eight-page template is for the use of hospital administration and planning personnel to identify and communicate key elements of the policy and procedures for screening, identification, and initial management of a suspected serious infectious disease patient. It is intended to be used as a tool to assist in the effective preparation for, implementation, and execution of facility serious infectious disease response plans. (PDF)
10/30/2018 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Alabama Department of Public Health. Published: 10/30/2018. This one-hour, 27-minute webinar addresses antibiotic resistance, and provides better understanding of the roles of professionals in antibiotic stewardship. The speaker defines several antibiotic resistance terms, describes mechanisms of the development of antibiotic resistance, and details action steps that one can take to prevent antibiotic resistance and the spread of antibiotic-resistant organisms. (Video or Multimedia)

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