Emergency Preparedness Plans
Please complete the following steps for your discussion post and response.
This discussion supports the following unit learning objective:
- Evaluate public health and community responses to disaster prevention and management.
Public health threats are addressed at various levels of authority, ranging from country, state/province, city/town, and individual facilities. Approaches used by each of these authorities varies, depending on the population, severity of disease, staffing of responders and professionals, and other logistical factors.
Research public health threats and accompanying prevention/management plans in the United States. You may choose to focus on a geographic region (state, town) or a facility (hospital, community center, etc.) Threats or disasters could include disease (COVID-19, Flu, etc.) or natural disasters (hurricanes, tornados, etc.) If you examine natural disasters, be sure to focus on the public health aspect (impacts on a person’s physical, mental, emotional health).
Discuss the following:
- Share a link to the threat/disaster plan you reviewed.
- List three (3) strengths of how the threat/disaster plan is structured
- Provide three (3) questions you have after reviewing the plan. These will be personal/opinion questions, based on how you interpret the plan information. Your peers will conduct additional research and help answer these questions.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
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