Enhancing public health emergency preparedness for special needs populations : a toolkit for state and local planning and response

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Label

Enhancing public health emergency preparedness for special needs populations : a toolkit for state and local planning and response

Title remainder

a toolkit for state and local planning and response

Statement of responsibility

Jeanne S. Ringel [and others]

Contributor

• RAND Health
• Rand Corporation
• United States, Department of Health and Human Services | Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response
• Adamson, David M
• Chandra, Anita
• Felton, Alexandria
• Huang, Meilinda
• Ricci, Karen A
• Ringel, Jeanne S
• Weden, Margaret M
• Williams, Malcolm
• Center for Domestic and International Health Security

Subject

• Disaster Planning
• Emergency management -- United States
• Health planning -- United States
• United States
• Vulnerable Populations

Language

eng

Summary

Experiences from recent emergencies, such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, have shown that current emergency preparedness plans are inadequate to address the unique issues of special needs populations. This toolkit is meant to assist state and local public health agencies improve their emergency preparedness activities. It distills the most relevant strategies, practices, and resources from a variety of sources, including peer-reviewed research, government reports, the trade literature, and public health leaders, to identify priority populations and critical strategies. The contents include potential strategies for addressing special needs, summaries of promising practices implemented in communities across the country, information on how to select one or more practices that will work in a specific community, information on how to determine whether a practice is working, and a Web-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tool to identify and enumerate those with special needs in communities across the United States. Used together, this toolkit and the GIS tool are intended to provide a comprehensive resource to enable public health planners to account for special needs populations in their emergency preparedness efforts

Cataloging source

RSM

Dewey number

363.3480973

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV551.3

LC item number

.E54 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography