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Does your jurisdiction have a public information call center (PICC)? This toolkit is designed to walk you through the basic steps of developing a PICC to help build the capacity to handle a surge in phone calls during a public |
they are included in policy decisions and emergency planning, and to seek their input on the pharmaceutical needs of vulnerable populations. Rx4Prep is an interactive, educational website to help local health departments obtain information about collaborating with pharmacies and connect |
1. Engage local health departments (LHDs) and pharmacies/pharmacists to work together on all hazards emergency preparedness and response. 2. Define important resources to increase awareness and understanding of public health and pharmacy organizations. 3. Provide current tools, resources and materials |
that: • Identify strategies to connect LHDs and community pharmacists and other local pharmacy leaders; • Foster sustainable relationships by demonstrating new products and areas of mutual benefit; • Create links between hospitals, healthcare professionals, emergency management, LHDs, and pharmacists/pharmacies; |
and • Describe trainings and drills that LHDs and community pharmacists and pharmacies can use to train, be READY and practice for emergencies. <br>Alternative care sites, shelters, and points of dispensing (PODs) require a specific number and type of facility |
depending upon the public health scenario and the number of persons affected. The Alternative Care Site Planning Model is intended to help public health officials evaluate the resources required to staff and equip alternative care sites in multiple emergency scenarios.<br><br> |
the critical resources needed for alternative care sites. It is not intended to manage all materials required. Users must have Microsoft Excel in order to operate the model. Does the public really understand the difference between the terms "avian influenza" |
and "pandemic influenza"? Do they know how avian and pandemic influenzas are spread? Are they familiar with simple ways to prepare for influenza? This tool is both a resource for local health departments to educate their communities and a self-study |
for persons who wish to increase their own knowledge and awareness. This tool includes a PDF of the “Complete Presentation Guide” which includes The PowerPoint presentation with speaker's notes, pre- and post-tests, suggested handouts, and interactive activities. Word documents are |
and just-in-time training. • Provide tools for volunteer management and integration into hospitals. • Communities will develop a local committee that coordinates emergency preparedness and response planning efforts among the communities’ stakeholders. • A Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program |
(HSEEP)-compliant training and exercise program will be created. This program will develop a jurisdiction's target capabilities and make the most use of limited resources. • The hospital, volunteer organization, and local public health agency will be prepared to use volunteers |
in a surge situation and agree on how to integrate them into hospital operations. • The local hospital or medical center will have a Joint Commission-compliant Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) that is up-to-date. <br>A Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) facilitates |
the performance of a health department's functions during a public health emergency or other situation which may interrupt normal services.<br><br> This tip sheet guides local health departments through the second phase of COOP planning, the process of identifying critical functions |
of emergency events or disasters. <br>Building a Public Health Community of Practice – A Biosurveillance Resource Compendium is a CD toolkit intended to help public health agencies implement an effective, comprehensive biosurveillance program. Providing approximately 40 resources, the CD includes |
a series of articles on implementing biosurveillance initiatives, materials defining and discussing the development of a public health community of practice, specific examples of real-world tools and resources that have proven beneficial in North Texas (including system response protocols), and |
medical community, law enforcement, first responders, and schools. <br>Learn about public health preparedness issues such as isolation and quarantine, workforce activation/surge, vulnerable populations planning, risk communications, and pandemic influenza preparedness with tools directed towards Local Health Department... |
with Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) trainers in your jurisdiction to provide them with pandemic H1N1 influenza training resources. Increase awareness of the threat of a pandemic influenza and its impact on the community and give CERT participants the education |
influenza pandemic. • Learn how to use personal protective equipment (PPE) for CERTs. <br>Avoid congestion, crowding, and confusion by quickly creating an accurate model that will provide assistance with planning for a public health vaccination or dispensing clinic. This tool |
can be used either in the advance planning stages or for immediate support during an actual event. The computer model is designed to assist in planning a clinic with improved efficiency and performance while enlightening the planners on what to |
Develop decision support tools to help emergency preparedness planners plan clinics that have enough capacity to serve residents quickly while avoiding unnecessary congestion. <br>The Closed POD Partnerships: Train the Trainer website is designed for businesses, faith-based and community-based organizations, higher |
education institutions (colleges and universities) and federal agencies that are interested in partnering with their local health department as closed Points of Dispensing (PODs) for mass dispensing of antibiotics to employees, family members and/or clients in the event of a |
the public health workforce can use to convene and engage their community partners. This resource provides state and local public health entities with information and guidance on the key ingredients to consider when developing and facilitating a bioterrorism tabletop exercise. |
questions. • Address logistical issues. <br>Provide child care providers with the knowledge and skills to develop a continuity of operations plan (COOP) for emergency events, specifically an H1N1 influenza pandemic. This tool includes a trainer outline, notes, handouts, and PowerPoint |
Describe the purpose and components of a continuity of operations plan (COOP). • Recall the response sequence for children or staff with pandemic flu symptoms. • Identify local, state, and national resources for keeping up-to-date on pandemic flu and other |
emergency information. <br> This training program guides Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) volunteer candidates through various topics that conform to the MRC Core Competencies Matrix. The tool covers various topics, including disaster preparedness, universal precautions, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability |
a plan for family assistance services that can be applied to all hazards. It contains four sections related to developing a Family Assistance Center (FAC) plan: Prepare to Plan, Components of Plan, Role of Federal Partners, and Training Resources. <br><br> |
FAC. • Develop a plan for a FAC, including strategies for addressing the behavioral health needs of families. This Crisis Communications Guide and Checklist, created by the Montgomery County Advanced Practice Center, is to assist public health planners in the |
preparation for a public health emergency by equipping them with the knowledge and understanding of basic crisis communications components. The 2001 anthrax crisis is used to illustrate key components of the ideas discussed. Approximately 30 pages long and available in |
The Crisis, Emergency, and Risk (CERC) Toolkit evolved from Santa Clara County's increased understanding and recognition of the need to build a strong operational framework for emergency public communication activities. Toolkit materials are predicated on "lessons learned" from actual events |
and best practices from the numerous trainings, drills, tabletops and exercises in which we have been participants and/or facilitators. The goal of the CERC Toolkit is to provide information and materials to other public health departments and assist in the |
policies, practices, and procedures. Additionally, the Guide addresses various formal and informal means to develop agreements, potential legal issues these agreements may generate, and the benefits and liabilities governments and their agents may reasonably expect when entering into such agreements. |
you want to complete. Playing the role of an environmental health professional, answer questions about how you would address a variety of issues that you encounter during the disaster. After answering each question, you earn points based on the relative |
correctness of your decision, given the three choices available in each situation. You also receive feedback explaining the merits or drawbacks of the possible answer answers. At the end of each scenario, you obtain your final score and can review |
the questions and feedback. <br>Design and conduct a full-scale disaster exercise using a DVD-based interactive training course designed to assist public health and emergency management professionals. The DVD includes video footage that details Tarrant County's full-scale dirty bomb disaster drill. |
include budget considerations. • Plan a field functional exercise. • Define key collaboration and partnerships including required expertise and level of experience. <br>Discover the process for utilizing pharmacies as medication dispensing and vaccination sites during emergencies by building effective partnerships |
between local health departments and community pharmacists. This toolkit contains four sections related to Developing Effective and Sustainable Medication Dispensing Strategies: Background, Planning, Activation & Operation, and Policy & Legal. A user guide and table top exercise are also available |
process for developing collaborative drug therapy agreements and memoranda of understanding between local health departments (LHDs) and pharmacists/their organizations to utilize pharmacies as medication dispensing and vaccination sites during emergency events. • Document a medication and vaccine distribution strategy ... |
involves partnering between LHDs and pharmacy organizations for responding to emergency events. • Identify opportunities and challenges in working with community pharmacists for emergency preparedness and response. <br> For this training module, environmental health professionals from around the country shared |
how they dealt with actual disasters and emergencies. Their real-world stories – through which they share valuable tips, techniques, and lessons learned – will guide you through the preparation, response, and recovery stages of emergencies and disasters. |Twin Cities Metro |
dealing with actual emergences and disasters. <br>During a public health emergency, time, accuracy, and data collection are essential in medical clinics. One way to improve results is through the use of an electronic medical screening tool. eMedCheck, an ongoing project |
with the University of Maryland, is a medical screening tool used on iPhone/iPad, Blackberry, or Palm PDA. Two medical screening tools have been developed: one for a Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) anthrax scenario and a second for a hepatitis A |
of time spent on patient registration and screening. • Improve the accuracy of medication allocation to patients. • Serve as a data collection system. The Santa Clara County Public Health Department Advanced Practice Center created The Emergency Dark Site Toolkit: |
A Toolkit on How to Build, Use and Maintain an Emergency Dark Site for Public Health Emergencies. This toolkit is intended to serve local health departments in setting up a public health department emergency dark site -- a static Web |
page used to post critical public health emergency messages when a server goes down. The Santa Clara County APC, in conjunction with Stanford University and Google, tested their newly created Dark Site during the April 2009 H1N1 outbreak. Due to |
an overwhelming number of web hits, the Santa Clara County Public Health Department's server went down, resulting in the activation of their Dark Site. When the site was activated, the Public Information Officer had a new tool to manage the |
public demand for H1N1 information. The Emergency Dark Site Toolkit: A Toolkit on How to Build, Use and Maintain an Emergency Dark Site for Public Health Emergencies includes step-by-step instructions to build your own emergency dark site for public health |
(version 1.5) is an all-hazards post-exposure prophylaxis response plan capable of addressing a range of public health threats. This planning template lays out a process for planning, opening, operating, and closing an emergency dispensing site (EDS) or dispensing vaccination center |
communication and promote universal access to emergency dispensing site services and other mass care services. Please note that this tool is currently being revised and a new version will be released in 2012. |Cambridge Advanced Practice Center, revised by the |
activities, accompanied by simple, one-word descriptions in English and Spanish. This tool has been created to help participants gain knowledge and skills to work at a Emergency Dispensing Site (EDS) in order to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and speed of |
a universally accessible emergency mass prophylaxis operation. This training approach is well suited for an audience of local public health and MRC volunteers who are leaders either within their departments or in their communities. Teach your volunteers how to use |
job action sheets, work within the chain of command, trouble-shoot bottle necks, and identify client barriers to service. The two complementary trainings included in this PDF tool are: 1. EDS 1: The Mechanics of an EDS 2. EDS 2: Facilitating |
subsequent recovery actions after an emergency occurs. • Offers tips for managing longer-term emergencies caused by disruption of utilities and municipal services. • Provides ongoing food security and emergency preparedness advice. |
Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 June 23 Explanation: As seen from Frösön island in northern Sweden the Sun |
did set a day after the summer solstice. From that location below the arctic circle it settled slowly behind the northern horizon. During the sunset's final minute, this remarkable sequence of 7 images follows the distorted edge of the solar |
disk as it just disappears against a distant tree line, capturing both a green and blue flash. Not a myth even in a land of runes, the colorful but elusive glints are caused by atmospheric refraction enhanced by long, low, |
sight lines and strong atmospheric temperature gradients. Authors & editors: Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply. A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC & Michigan Tech. U. |
Yes, it's Protect Your Groundwater Day! Here is some information from the National Ground Water Association: Everyone can and should do something to protect groundwater. Why? We all have a stake in maintaining its quality and quantity. - For starters, 95 percent of all available freshwater comes from aquifers undergrou... |
Not only that, most surface water bodies are connected to groundwater so how you impact groundwater matters. - Furthermore, many public water systems draw all or part of their supply from groundwater, so protecting the resource protects the public water supply and impacts treatment costs. - If you own a well to provide... |
groundwater protection is doubly important. As a well owner, you are the manager of your own water system. Protecting groundwater will help reduce risks to your water supply. Groundwater protectionThere are two fundamental categories of groundwater protection: - Keeping it safe from contamination - Using it wisely by n... |
you should know that sometimes the quality and safety of groundwater is affected by substances that occur naturally in the environment. "When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water." -- attributed to several, including Ben Franklin |
New ideas and information have emerged recently that hold great promise for enhancing the impact of current prevention efforts. "Prevention is the best treatment" is an oft-cited maxim, and one that certainly applies to drug abuse. Anyone who can be influenced to avoid abusing drugs is spared their harmful health and s... |
disruption and job loss, confusion and despair, the difficult struggle of treatment, and -- for many -- the ravages of addiction and the ordeal of climbing back after relapse. From society's point of view, drug abuse prevention helps keep a tremendous burden -- related to disease and premature death, lost capacity for ... |
worse. The bulk of current interventions to prevent drug abuse fall mainly into two groups. One set is designed to reduce risk factors associated with higher likelihood of drug abuse and increase protective factors associated with lower likelihood of drug abuse. When implemented in conformity with proven prevention pri... |
the product of more than a decade of research and clinical experience, is effective and inclusive enough to apply to most populations. Moreover, researchers continue to learn more about how risk and protective factors relate, and practitioners are ever more adept at applying this knowledge. These efforts will continue ... |
well into the future. Nonetheless, there are limitations to the risk-and-protective-factors strategy. One feature that ultimately limits its impact, for example, is the nature of the factors themselves. They tend to be fundamental or deeply entrenched characteristics or experiences of a person, family, or community. So... |
depression or ready access to drugs of abuse. As a result, traditional risk factors generally can be modified only by relatively broad and long-term interventions. Certain factors may not be susceptible to modification, such as a genetic predisposition to risk-taking. In addition, for the most part, traditional risk fa... |
actual choice to use drugs. As important as it is to lower vulnerability, on a given day, even someone with a relatively low vulnerability may opt to use drugs. The second important group of preventive interventions complements and extends the risk-and-protective-factors strategy by focusing on the dynamic of situation... |
abuse or not to abuse drugs. Important applications of this strategy include normative education to refute the common belief that "everyone takes drugs," and equipping young people with the skills to refuse drug offers without feeling they are losing face. This strategy is full of untapped promise, and today likely off... |
prevention. A few of the many issues whose elucidation may yield improved interventions include why even very young children tend to expect positive experiences from drugs; how individuals' styles for processing language and visual images affect drug-taking decisions; the roles of curiosity and impulsivity in such deci... |
use drugs. A recent dramatic finding in neurobiological research may greatly increase our understanding of adolescent decisionmaking and our ability to help adolescents choose wisely regarding drug abuse. Scientists have long suspected that the adolescent brain is still developing physically, and researchers have now d... |
and adulthood. Further investigation of this growth process undoubtedly will yield important insights relevant to some of the cognitive issues affecting the appeal of drugs and drug-taking decisions. The impact on drug abuse prevention could be tremendous, especially in light of the fact that adolescence often is a cri... |
experimenting with intoxication in adolescence or young adulthood. While populations are constantly changing -- and while prescription drug abuse by older individuals today is a serious and mounting concern -- it remains generally true that people who do not abuse drugs during the decisive years before age 25 are unlik... |
true that people who do not abuse drugs during the decisive years before age 25 are unlikely ever to develop a serious drug problem. A tighter focus on decisionmaking regarding drug abuse should enable us to progress in a vitally important area: preventing escalation from early, experimental drug use to regular use, ab... |
10 percent of people who experiment with drugs become dependent or addicted. We also know that some of the factors that influence whether a person will become dependent or addicted are independent of the factors that influence whether he or she will initiate drug abuse. For example, research has suggested that, perhaps... |
dislike the agitation cocaine can produce more than they like the euphoria it brings -- and so discontinue use after their initial experimentation. Interventions based upon such factors may curtail drug abuse before it reaches critical severity and thereby forestall most of its truly tragic health and social consequenc... |
protective factors while also seeking to identify, develop, and integrate new science-based approaches into existing prevention programs. To accomplish these goals, NIDA recently launched the three-part Drug Abuse Prevention Research Initiative. (See "NIDA Conference Reviews Advances in Prevention Science, Announces Ne... |
and applied researchers and practitioners will work together in Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Centers to synthesize knowledge from all the relevant scientific fields into powerful new prevention packages. Researchers and State and local practitioners will collaborate in Community Multisite Prevention Trials to ... |
the gradual accumulation of knowledge suddenly gives rise to new perspectives with the promise of new solutions to problems of living. In the area of drug abuse prevention, this is such a moment, and NIDA is moving swiftly to take full advantage of its potential. |
Skokie's Howard Bergman is among more than 14,000 people from 60 countries who have used the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Tracing Service to access information about Holocaust-era histories. The collection of more than 150 million digital images of documentation, in vaults in Bad Arolsen, Ger... |
The museum led an effort to open the archives in 2007 in response to the frustration of Holocaust survivors seeking information about their loved ones, said Andrew Hollinger, museum spokesman. The archive is overseen by an 11-nation commission and administered by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Like Bergm... |
the public for decades, such as prison cards, transportation documents and camp entry cards. In many cases, names and details were meticulously transcribed by the Nazis. To help people find information online, the museum has partnered with Ancestry.com to build what's touted as the largest online resource on Holocaust ... |
Researchers at Stanford University have brought about a unique marriage between computer chips and living cells that could greatly accelerate everything from tests for new drugs to screening for diseases such as leukemia. The basic living element in every organism is the cell. Humans have at least 100 trillion of |
them, all designed to carry out various bodily functions. Each cell is a complex bag of enzymes and chemicals surrounded by a spherical membrane, and how a cell reproduces and works with other cells determines how efficiently the organism performs. Scientists have struggled for years to understand the cell and |
especially the membrane that seems to control most of the crucial functions, but they have been hampered by the difficulty of growing cells in a laboratory culture for research. A decade ago, Stanford researchers developed artificial membranes that were so like the real thing that living cells could be tricked |
into attaching themselves to them. Two years ago, graduate student Jay T. Groves learned something interesting when he pulled a pair of tweezers through one of the artificial membranes. The parts separated permanently. He also found that he could manipulate the different parts by applying an electrical current. About t... |
time, Nick Ulman, an electrical engineer, joined Groves' research group, headed by chemistry professor Steven G. Boxer. Ulman brought with him an understanding of microelectronics. The researchers discovered that the electric field generated by a tiny microchip could be used to separate the artificial membrane into tin... |
called "corrals." The corrals were so small that millions occupied an area no bigger than a fingernail. That gave the researchers something they had never had before: a means of isolating, cataloging and manipulating millions of cell membranes simultaneously. "It's a little bit like having a parking lot with assigned |
spaces," Boxer says. If you leave your car in an unmarked parking lot at the airport, he says, you may be lucky to find it again. But if each parking space has a number, it becomes much simpler. "Ultimately, you can say I've got a Ferrari in spot 2A, and |
I've got a Volkswagen over in space 3D," Boxer says. Similarly, living cells can be "tricked" into attaching themselves to individual membranes. That is done by modifying the surface of each membrane. "If you wax a car, after you wax it, water beads up on the surface," Boxer says. "Before |
waxing, the water just runs off. That's an example of modifying the properties of the surface such that water associates differently with the surface." One potential use is for cell screening for leukemia patients. Some of the membranes on the chip could be "seeded" with proteins that bind to different |
kinds of cells. By flooding a glass plate embedded with chips with blood from the patient, the cells would attach themselves to designated areas, thus revealing how many cells of different types are present, and possibly even how well they are performing. Joseph A. Zasadzinski, professor of chemical engineering at |
UC Santa Barbara, who has analyzed the Stanford research, sees many potential applications. It could pave the way for a pharmaceutical researcher to "try 50 million different things" at the same time, Zasadzinski says. "Right now, you grow cells in culture and you see which ones die, and that's very |
slow. Here you can imagine 20,000 little plates in a square inch, and each one of them you can tweak a slightly different way." It could greatly increase the rate of testing for new drugs for viruses, he says, because the experiments could be repeated millions of times in a |
tightly controlled and manipulable environment. Others see it leading to a test for AIDS in which thousands of blood tests could be conducted in the time it now takes to do just one. The heart of the system is the computer chip. "That's where the ultimate power of this comes |
in," Boxer says. "The same technology that's used to make integrated circuits, computer chips, is also being used to design a biocompatible surface." That has led to a bit of unwelcome fallout, he adds. The researchers are constantly asked if they are on the road to the ultimate marriage between |
computers and living cells--the bionic man. Boxer flinches at the suggestion. This is such a tiny step, he says, that it's ludicrous to think of it in those terms. Still, some see this as one more step toward creating computer-based biological systems. "If you can optimize this, you can get |
Do not imagine the Mona Lisa with a mustache! If you failed to carry out this instruction, it is because your power of visualization is so strong that it takes any suggestion, positive or negative, and turns it into an |
image. And as the maestro emphasized, “the thing imagined moves the sense.” If you think you cannot visualize. Chances are you answered these questions easily by drawing on your internal image data bank, the occipital lobe of your cerebral cortex. |
This data bank has the potential, in coordination with your frontal lobes, to store and create more images, both real and imaginary, than the entire world’s film and television production companies combined. From How to think like Leonardo da Vinci, |
With the Insurance institute for highway safety reporting a record 1.5 million vehicle strikes against wildlife annually, animals are forced to circumnavigate a daily procession of cars, trucks, SUV’s and more, barreling down highways that run through habitats in man-made surroundings which in no way resemble their own... |
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