Week 6 - managment of communicable disease Flashcards
what is the definition of a disaster?
a serious distuption to community life - threatens / causes death injury and damges property greater than the day to day capacity
what is the definition of an emergency?
actual or imminent occurence of even that endangers/threaters the health/saftey of any person or destroys damages property
what is the national disaster resilence framework?
aims to protect austraila from the inpacts of disaster by shared responsibility and a more resilent uastrlai with recognition, reduction and recovry post disaster
what is the main concern of the emergency managment manual?
protection and preservation of life is paramunt
- saftey of emergency service personal
and saftey of community members, including vunerable community memebers and visotrs
what are the public health consequences of disasters?
water quality sanitation infectious diseas hopsilisation long term health effects long term psycholgical effcts
what is the ICS?
incident contral system- scalable manamgent tool that intergrates personal, procedures, facilties, equipment and communications into a common orginisational structure
what are the ICS principles?
one agency is a controller of an incident functional delegations managment by objectives managment plans span of controls
what are the division of functions of the ICS?
control - overal manamgnet approving of AIPs and incident obejctioves
operations - mangment and division of ambulance crews
planning - collaboration of information and opreparing predicitons and plans
logistics - provison of resources
under the incident action plan what is SMEAC?
tool for how plans are made and distributed/breid to all services
S - situation - what happened
M- mission - what we need to achive
E - execution- how to achive it
A administration - details
C command and communication- how is going to do it and how will we communicate
