public health and EMS

public health and EMS

Main readings for the assignment: this is the foundation for the assignment.

1. Landesman chapter 3: Structure and Organization of Health Management in Disaster Response

2. Landesman chapter 5: Disaster Surveillance and Information Systems

3. Wisner chapter 3: Predisaster activities

The assignment as following:
Discuss common themes across the assigned journal articles relative to public health preparedness from the emergency and disaster healthcare perspective.
Many of you without a clinical background will be shocked or dismayed by some of the findings here. Those of you who already work in the healthcare sector may not. Regardless, the objective here is to generate a discussion where everyone learns new information.
Therefore, keep in mind the overall instructions for completion of discussion boards. Those of you who post later should not be writing exactly the same information as the students who post first. Read what has already been written and strive to paint a different picture, cite new references, add something to the discussion that nobody else has found or take a dissenting point of view.

Journal Articles: Included in the attachment:

1. Howard Champion, et al. The State of US Trauma Systems: Public Perceptions Versus Reality?Implications for US Response to Terrorism and Mass Casualty Event.

2. The Future of Emergency Care in the United States: The Institute of Medicine Subcommittee on Prehospital Emergency Medical Services.

3. Institute of Medicine. The Future of Emergency Care in the United States Health System.

4. Jon Mark Hirshon, et al. Emergency Medicine and the Health of the Public: The Critical Role of Emergency Departments in US Public Health.

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Emergency Health Systems
The emergency department is one of the most significant departments in any healthcare organization, considering the cases handled on a daily basis and the perceptions Americans have with respect to its responsibilities. Notably, research points to the American population having a significantlyhigh regard for the emergency department,

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