Emergency Preparedness Flashcards
Public health role
- Sanitation of the environment
- Controle of communicable infections
- organization of medical and nursing sevices for diagnostis/prevention tx of disease.
- develop standard of living for maintenance of health
A public health emergency of international concern criterias:
- seriousness of the public health impact of the event
- unusual or unexpected nature of the event
- potential for the event to spend internationally and/or
- the risk that restrictions to travel or trade may result bc of the event.
Health Canada role:
- regulated products
- conduct programs and services in environmental health and protection, substance abuse, tobacco policy workplace health
- Monitor and track DISEASEs and takes action where required
Public health agency of Canada
- Prevent and control infectious diseases
- Prepare for and respond to public health emergencies.
Public Health directors responsability toward emergency mesures:
to identify situations which could pose a threat to the population’s health.
Etablish necessary mesure to protection
Implementing emergency measures.
What regulated the public health in Canada?
Public health Act
Reportable intoxications, infections and disease: (MADO: maladies a declaration obligatoire) criterias:
(can be infectious disease or chemical intox)
- Pose a risk of causing new cases
- Medical threat
- Surveillance or epidemiological investigation
- Capacity to prevent new cases or maintain the outbreak.
Compulsory prophylactic measures of the Public health Act:
can isolate for a maximun of 30 days as part of the prophylactic measures.
Surge Capacity:
ability to manage increased patient care volume, ressources pool and the preparedness of the individual nurses.
Surge Capability:
Ability to manage patient requiring unusual or very specialized medical evaluation/intervention.
Emergency Management: 4 pillars
- Prevention and mitigation (action to reduce/eliminate impact and risk. Eg. Food inspection, building code)
- Preparedness (Policies, procedures and plans)
- Response
- Recovery
Risk assessment matrix:
Impact risk (low, medium high) Likelihood risk (low, medium, high)
Haddon Matrix:
Phase: Prevent, event and post event
Influencing factors: Host, Agent/vector, physical environment, social environment/ organizational culture
Interventions/ Activities for Emergency preparedness:
- Intelligence (surveillance, data analysis)
- Guidelines
- Case and contact management measures (quarantine, vaccination)
- Population measures
- Coordination with partners
- Communication
Risk communication: (3)
Outrage management
Precaution advocacy
Crisis communication
Outrage management
Reassuring excessively upset people about small risks (eg. calm down!)
Precaution advocacy
Alerting insufficiently upset people to serious risks (Eg. Watch out!)
Crisis communication
Healping appropriately upset people cope with serious risks (eg. We’ll get through this together!)
Outbreak is
localized, controlled epidemic
Epidemic is
occur in community/region with clearly a excess of illness.
Pandemic is
worldwide epidemic
Emergency Preparedness Model for community health centers:
PLAN, TRAIN and EXERCISE
Environmental and occupational health framework:
PEDAS:
Pressure
Exposure and Effects: (inhalation, ingestion)
Driving forces: Factors that create pressures (poverty, urbanization)
Action: action undertaken to affect the environmental factor (policy changes,pollution monitoring)
State of the environment
Link between emergency preparedness and environment health:
due to the increasing damage occurring to the planet , such as increase in heat , increase CO2 levels amongst others ,we are facing aggravation of many health problems and creation or migration of new disease.
