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Health emergency preparedness and response.

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This book aims to provide a series of informative descriptions of key elements of health emergency preparedness and response that are underpinned by real-life examples. The book is divided into 17 chapters, as follows: introduction on the need to prepare for health emergencies; the planning process; risk assessment; writing an emergency plan; emergency planning and response, and working in partner...
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Chapter 17 (Page no: 194)

From pandemics to earthquakes: health and emergencies in Canterbury, New Zealand.

This chapter discusses the role of public health agencies in risk awareness, readiness, response and recovery from disasters, using the example of New Zealand and its response to the Canterbury earthquakes in 2010. It examines the legal aspects relating to emergency planning, response and recovery; the influence of previous pandemic influenza in pandemic preparedness; the New Zealand pandemic response to influenza; and, the transfer of learning from pandemics to the earthquake response. In addition, the impact of earthquake emergency response on health care; the coordination of the emergency response; the wider response involving water, sanitation and sewerage; communications strategies; local citizen response; and, the medium- to longer-term responses are described.

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Chapter: 1 (Page no: 1) Introduction: why do we need to prepare? Author(s): Sellwood, C. Wapling, A.
Chapter: 2 (Page no: 10) The planning process. Author(s): Sellwood, C. Wapling, A.
Chapter: 3 (Page no: 18) Risk assessment. Author(s): Bush, J.
Chapter: 4 (Page no: 30) Writing an emergency plan. Author(s): Wapling, A.
Chapter: 5 (Page no: 37) Emergency planning and response: working in partnership. Author(s): Lewis, S.
Chapter: 6 (Page no: 50) Interprofessional working: understanding some emotional barriers and unconscious processes that might influence practice in group and team work. Author(s): Sully, P.
Chapter: 7 (Page no: 60) Command, control and communication. Author(s): Rowe, A. Thorpe, P.
Chapter: 8 (Page no: 72) Communications during a health emergency. Author(s): Cole, J.
Chapter: 9 (Page no: 82) Psychosocial and mental health care before, during and after emergencies, disasters and major incidents. Author(s): Williams, R. Kemp, V.
Chapter: 10 (Page no: 99) Business continuity. Author(s): Hebdon, J.
Chapter: 11 (Page no: 109) Training and exercising for emergency preparedness, resilience and response. Author(s): Ellett, R. Wapling, A.
Chapter: 12 (Page no: 126) Post-incident follow-up. Author(s): Reddin, K. Macdonald, G.
Chapter: 13 (Page no: 138) Mass casualty incidents. Author(s): Shanahan, M.
Chapter: 14 (Page no: 152) Preparedness and response to pandemics and other infectious disease emergencies. Author(s): Nguyen-Van-Tam, J. S. Penttinen, P. M. P.
Chapter: 15 (Page no: 166) CBRN incidents. Author(s): Chilcott, R. P. Wyke, S. M.
Chapter: 16 (Page no: 181) A military case study. Author(s): Ross, D. Charnick, A.
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  • Author Affiliation
  • Canterbury Medical Officer of Health, Christchurch, New Zealand.
  • Year of Publication
  • 2016
  • ISBN
  • 9781780644554
  • Record Number
  • 20163274008
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