Nursing 3310A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter week 10: Public Health Emergency Preparedness, Crisis Management, The Who
12 Jan 2017
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Bayntun, c. , rockenschaub, g. , & murray, v. (2012). Developing a health system approach to management: a qualitative analysis of the core literature to complement the. Who toolkit for assessing health-system capacity for crisis management. Developing a health system approach to disaster management: a qualitative analysis of the core literature to complement the who toolkit for assessing health-system capacity for crisis. This article is a literature review of emergency preparedness that compares current research with the who toolkit recommendations. Recent disasters highlight the need for preparedness----earthquake in haiti (2010). 000 killed, 450 000 contracted cholera(6300 died) due to inadequate health system and emergency preparedness. Floods in pakistan(2010), famine in africa(2011), and tsunami in japan(2011) had much better health outcomes because of early emergency preparedness and therefore people were evacuated, treated much more quickly. Who states public health threats include new or emerging diseases, accidental or deliberate release of biological, chemical, or radio-nuclear agents, natural disasters, man-made disasters, complex emergencies, and conflicts.
