Emergency Response Paper

According to Week 1 lectures, a public health disaster is “an event that overwhelms local resources and services beyond those generally needed to respond to emergency situations”. An effective healthcare response requires evidence and information to meet various and often unpredictable eventualities. The public health department should facilitate rapid assessment of adverse health outcomes, availability of healthcare infrastructure, appropriate organizational strategies, and selection of feasible medical interventions to deal with any given disaster.(Mahapatra, 2014) . I believe that the primary role of a local or state public health department is to provide services essential for protecting and ensuring the well-being of the people in affected areas, with an emphasis on prevention and control of disease and injury. Public health system is critical in all three stages of a disaster event but a community can only respond in a better way to a disaster by doing most of the preparations of any disaster. “Public Health system process is a continuous cycle of gathering information, deciding, acting and evaluating the health of the community” (Lecture Notes 1.3).

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It is very important to inform the first responders about the scale of emergency and exposure pathways because epidemics can follow other