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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Emergency preparedness and response"”.
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A framework for understanding and designing partnerships in emergency preparedness and response
Using partnerships between the public and private sectors to provide emergency preparedness and response (EPER) functions has become a useful and necessary tool for improving overall emergency management in the United States. Privatization has been studied comprehensively in many areas that are …
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The role of education and hands-on training in emergency preparedness and response
Natural disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina and manmade catastrophes such as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center have tested the public health response capabilities of the United States. While each disaster be it natural or manmade will have different characteristics; however, they …
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Deriving a policy document towards an early warning system for estuaries in South Africa: case study Great Brak estuary, Eden District, Southern Cape
South Africa's estuaries and their surrounding communities are becoming increasingly vulnerable to storm surges and accompanied estuary flooding. These events are largely due to increasing severity of storm surges combined with growing housing and commercial developments. A particularly severe …
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Practitioner Perspectives on After Action Reports for Cross-Organizational Emergency Preparedness Learning
… intended to summarize perceived strengths and areas of improvements of an organization's response to an emergency incident, event or exercise. Despite their role in capturing and evaluating response strategies and interventions employed by response agencies, very little is known about the …
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Responses to terrorism scenarios: Event features, individual characteristics, and subjective evaluations
<p>The extensive research into responses to terrorism has focused on the effects of individual characteristics on reactions to past terrorism events. This literature has largely omitted two issues: the impact of terrorism event features, and reactions to possible future terrorism events. The first …
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Characterisation of national immunisation programmes in countries experiencing public health emergencies within the WHO African region
… is a scarcity of studies characterising PHEs and the performance of national immunisation programmes (NIPs) in countries within the WHO Africa region that have experienced PHEs. This study assessed PHEs (armed conflicts, disasters, and disease outbreaks) and the performance of NIPs in the …
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MPOX 2022: Strategic Management During a Public Health Emergency
… by the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) any time there is a disease, disorder or event that poses a significant risk to the public at large. In the context of a PHE, the challenge of strategic management is enhanced as all levels of the public health sector are …
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Development and demonstration of a high-performance Gaussian puff model for nuclear emergency training scenarios in unity game engine
Prompt decision making and implementation of protective actions in the event of a nuclear or radiological emergency require detailed preparations and training. Computer models provide an avenue to simulate the presence of radioactive sources and/or releases of radioactive material safely, but the …