08/02/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 8/2/2019. This web page details how water in healthcare settings can harbor germs that threaten the safety of patients and spread antibiotic-resistant pathogens or healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), and how to reduce those risks. Topics are Water Management Program; Sinks, Drains, Plumbing; Research; Opportunistic Pathogens of Premise Plumbing; Further Reading; Healthcare Water Management; and Outbreaks Involving Waterborne Pathogens. (Text)
08/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Published: 8/2019. This 15-page document focuses on the experiences of individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) before, during, and after disasters. Given how common disaster exposure is, the stressors disasters involve, and issues individuals with SMI face even in non-disaster times, it is crucial to understand how individuals with SMI fit into the overall profile of disaster-affected communities to plan services and promote effective preparedness, response, and recovery. (PDF)
06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC). Published: 6/2019. This 255-page report provides information about an effort that sought to assess the impact of potential real-world interferents present in sponge-stick and vacuum cassettes samples on current culture and molecular analysis methods for the detection of bacillus anthracis spores. Having an assessment of the impact, if any, will help EPA understand limitations of the current methods for contaminant spread and extent mapping, and identify possible opportunities or needs for method improvement. Following a biological contamination incident, the spatial extent of the contamination should be determined using established sampling and analytical methods. (PDF)
05/31/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Published: 5/31/2019. This 131-page report, published with the U.S. Fire Administration and Federal Emergency Management Agency, was written in response to a request to research new and emerging technology that could be applied to wildland fire incident response, given the loss of life that occurred in California during the fall of 2017 in Santa Rosa and Ventura. Its key findings describe lines of effort addressing priority capability gaps that, if implemented, could substantially improve immediate life-saving efforts during wildland urban interface fire incidents. (PDF)
05/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT
Source: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Published: 5/2019. This 21-page guide from the USAID-funded Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments (ATLAS) project is intended to serve as an introductory resource for USAID, implementing partners, and development practitioners interested in integrating social and behavior change into climate change adaptation and resilience programming. It shares key resources for expanding knowledge of social and behavior change and considerations for social and behavior change use in project design and implementation stage monitoring and evaluation. (PDF)
03/01/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: U.S. Army Borden Institute. Published: 3/2019. This volume documents the services’ support for workers in the military industrial base, and archives information on exposures of concern among deployed service members, documenting the development of data repositories and registries, as well as studies done with this data. It identifies innovations in exposure identification and assessment for future efforts. It should be useful to practitioners of military medicine and those involved in military occupational and environmental health research, so that avoidable exposures among service members and civilian staff can be avoided, and adverse health effects stemming from military service can be treated with the best available knowledge and procedures. (PDF)
02/01/2019 12:00 AM EST
Source: U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Published: 2/2019. This 53-page report from the USAID-funded Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments (ATLAS) project examines efforts to better understand and manage the risks of extreme heat on human well-being, including the public health burden heat poses, and the direct and indirect impacts of heat waves. It offers a review of available heat early warning systems around the world and recommendations for advancing research to develop tools and climate-resilient systems that are adaptive, contextually appropriate, and can improve the capacity of health professionals and policymakers to safeguard human health in a warming world. (PDF)
12/11/2018 12:00 AM EST
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 12/11/2018. This four-page checklist is intended to assist in the development of an all-hazards approach to water management in a healthcare facility, and may be used to evaluate a comprehensive water management program; identify individuals to participate in the water management program; assist in conducting assessments, including hazard analyses, environmental risk assessments, and infection control risk assessments; and inform water monitoring practices guided by the management program. (PDF)
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