Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Disaster Lit® Database Daily Updates

Biological Threats to U.S. National Security

11/20/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: U.S. Senate, Committee on Armed Services. Published: 11/20/2019. This one-hour, 33-minute Congressional hearing details biological threats facing the country, major drivers of those threats, and key Department of Defense programs that are aimed at preparing for and responding to them. Witnesses discuss how new and evolving technologies have enabled a more dangerous and dynamic biothreat landscape than is contemplated in current biodefense policy and programs, and how health security is national security, in a world that is increasingly dangerous and interdependent. (Video or Multimedia)

Mental Health Facts on Refugees, Asylum-seekers, and Survivors of Forced Displacement

11/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: American Psychiatric Association (APA). Published: 11/2019. This four-page fact sheet details how most of the world's 70.8 million refugees, asylum seekers, unaccompanied minors, and other survivors of forced displacement will not receive needed mental health care due to scarcity of services and stigma against mental health care. It discusses systems of care for the mental health of refugees and asylum seekers, and strengths and protective factors common to refugees and asylum-seekers. (PDF)

Radiation Epidemiology for Public Health Decision Making

10/31/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health (CDC NCEH). Published: 10/31/2019. This eight-module training will provide an overview of important considerations of radiation epidemiology; describe what distinguishes a well-designed or reliable study from an unreliable, and a flawed study; and explore how the results of epidemiologic studies are misused or misrepresented and the impact on creating public health policy and evidence-based health practices. (Video or Multimedia)

Acute Radiation Syndrome: A Brochure for Physicians

06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 6/2019. This 12-page brochure describes acute radiation syndrome, its required conditions, its four stages, and patient management. A table details acute radiation syndromes and associated dose, prodromal stage, latent stage, manifest illness stage, and recovery. (PDF)

Cutaneous Radiation Injury: A Brochure for Physicians

06/01/2019 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 6/2019. This 16-page brochure describes cutaneous radiation injury (CRI), stages and grades of CRI, and patient management. Appendices detail responses of the skin to radiation, images of CRI, and a table of grades of CRI according to stage, recovery, and late effects. (PDF)

Success Stories in Radiation Emergency Preparedness

02/07/2019 12:00 AM EST

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health (CDC NCEH). Published: 2/7/2019. These five videos are examples of how state and local partners have used Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) resources to increase their radiation emergency preparedness. They demonstrate how CDC has worked with many state and local public health and emergency management jurisdictions over the past decade and a half, and continues to provide technical assistance, training, and tools to support radiation emergency planning and preparedness activities. (Video or Multimedia)