Public Health

Overview

Public Health Preparedness and Response Core Competency Model (PHPR):

Domains: 1 - Model Leadership; 2 - Communicate and Manage Information; 3 - Plan for and Improve Practice; 4 - Protect Worker Health and Safety

CDC Public Health Preparedness Capability: National Standards for State, and Local 3/11 Video or Files (3.1 MB)

Taken directly from the CDC:

Brief EXECUTIVE SUMMARY : (click link above to read complete information)

Public health threats are always present. Whether caused by natural, accidental, or intentional means, these threats can lead to the onset of public health incidents. Being prepared to prevent, respond to, and rapidly recover from public health threats is critical for protecting and securing our nation’s public health.
The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic underscored the importance of communities being prepared for potential threats. Because of its unique abilities to respond to infectious, occupational, or environmental incidents, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plays a pivotal role in ensuring that state and local public health systems are prepared for these and other public health incidents. CDC provides funding and technical assistance for state, local, and territorial public health departments through the Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) cooperative agreement. PHEP cooperative agreement funding provides approximately $700 million annually to 50 states, four localities, and eight U.S. territories and freely associated states for building and strengthening their abilities to respond to public health incidents.
Evolving Threats and Strengthening the Public Health System
Public health departments have made progress since 2001, as demonstrated in CDC’s state preparedness reports (http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/reportingonreadiness.htm). However, state and local public health departments continue to face multiple challenges, including an ever-evolving list of public health threats. Regardless of the threat, an effective public health response begins with an effective public health system with robust systems in place to conduct routine public health activities. In other words, strong state and local public health systems are the cornerstone of an effective public health response.
Today, public health systems and their respective preparedness programs face many challenges. Federal funds for preparedness have been declining, causing state and local planners to express concerns over their ability to sustain the real and measurable advances made in public health preparedness since September 11, 2001, when Congress appropriated funding to CDC to expand its support nationwide of state and local public health preparedness. State and local planners likely will need to make difficult choices about how to prioritize and ensure that federal dollars are directed to priority areas within their jurisdictions.
Defining National Standards for State and Local Planning
In response to these challenges and in preparation for a new five-year PHEP cooperative agreement that takes effect in August 2011, CDC implemented a systematic process for defining a set of public health preparedness capabilities to assist state and local health departments with their strategic planning. The resulting body of work, Public Health Preparedness Capabilities: National Standards for State and Local Planning, hereafter referred to as public health preparedness capabilities, creates national standards for public health preparedness capability-based planning and will assist state and local planners in identifying
gaps in preparedness, determining the specific jurisdictional priorities, and developing plans for building and sustaining capabilities. These standards are designed to accelerate state and local preparedness planning, provide guidance and recommendations for preparedness planning, and, ultimately, assure safer, more resilient, and better prepared communities.
Public health preparedness capabilities. CDC identified the following 15 public health preparedness capabilities (shown in their corresponding domains) as the basis for state and local public health preparedness:

Biosurveillance	Community Resilience	Countermeasures and Mitigation	Incident Management	Information Management	Surge Management
Public Health Laboratory Testing	Community Preparedness	Medical Countermeasure Dispensing	Emergency Operations Coordination	Emergency Public Information and Warning	Fatality Management
Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation	Community Recovery	Medical Materiel Management and Distribution		Information Sharing	Mass Care
		Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions			Medical Surge
		Responder Safety and Health			Volunteer Management

NIMS Implementation and Compliance Guidance for Stakeholders PHPR

States and Territories
http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nims/AllGovernors_2009_NIMS_ImplementationLetterIMSI.pdf

Link for all three of the above
http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nims/FY2009_NIMS_Implementation_Chart.pdf

http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nims/ImplementationGuidanceStakeholders.shtm

http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nims/AboutNIMS.shtm

http://www.fema.gov/pdf/emergency/nims/NIMS_core.pdf

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/

PERRCS

PHASYS Interactive Models: "Chris Keane developed this model as an extension of his outbreak response model, with embedded spread of virus." PHPR 1.3, 1.4 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.1-3.3, 4.2; CDC Capabilities Videos and Files( 3.1 MB):

Agency Coordination and Redundancy
1. Shows affects of agency coordination on different modes consenus vs.parallel modes.
Distribution Resource;
1. Allows a view of the distribution across a network.
Foodborne Disease Spread;
1. "This flexible model allows for two routes of infection, person-to-person and from infected food, and two restaurants with two suppliers."
School Infectious Outbreaks;
1. "Simulates illness spreading, children, adults and elderly going from home to public places, with surveillance, different vaccination strategies, and agencies with the authority to close schools. It is meant to be very simple, to stimulate thinking about adaptive response. The purpose is not to predict absolute numbers of infections but rather to generate new insights into the type of dynamics at play."
System Response and Infectious Disease Outbreak:

Harvard's LAMPS:

Flu Math Games for teacher and students; PHPR: 2.3 3.1; CDC Capabilities Videos and Files( 3.1 MB):1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 13, 14, 15
1. Allows individuals the ability to visualize the spread of diseases such as the Flu a

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Public Health Law 101:

PHPR: 1.6; CDC Capabilities Videos and Files( 3.1 MB): 2

Administrative Law (5.9 MB)
Environmental & Occupational Public Health (5.9 MB)
Ethics (4.2 MB)
Infectious Disease (6.5 MB)
Key Concepts of U.S. Law in Public Health Practice (7.8 MB)
Role of Legal Counsel (5.1 MB)
Practitioners - Law in the Prevention and Control of Obesity (4.5 MB)
Privacry and Confidentiality (5.8 MB)
Law of Public Health Sureillance, Investigations, and Emergencies (6.8 MB)

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Risk Communication

PHPR: 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5; CDC Capabilities Videos and Files( 3.1 MB): 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 15

Commincating in the First Hours:

Introduction:

The Office of Public Affairs of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed messages and other resources for federal, state, local, and tribal public health officials to use during a response to an emergency.

Provided here are messages that apply to all Category A Biological Agents, as classified by the CDC, as well as messages about chemical and radiological events and suicide bombing.

Purpose:

The messages were written to be used by federal public health officials and to be adapted for the use of state and local public health officials during a terrorist attack or suspected attack. Use these messages as follows:

To communicate with the public during a terrorist attack or a suspected attack
To adapt for a specific event (These messages were written for fictitious situations, so assumptions were made about an event.)
To provide information during the first hours of an event
To save precious moments during the initial response time and to buy the time necessary for public health leaders to develop more specific messages

In addition to this federal resource, public health departments in several states and some cities and local governments have developed similar messages. With the permission of the public health departments, state and locally developed messages will be shared on this site so that public health officials throughout the nation can benefit from each other’s work.

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Mental Health Workers

CDC Capabilities Videos and Files( 3.1 MB): 1, 2, 3, 6

Section Content

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Emergency Medical Services and Emergency Medical Responders Providers

CDC Capabilities Videos and Files( 3.1 MB): 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11

Treatment and Transport of Victims of Hazardous Substances: PHPR competency 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

"OSHA has developed a guide for emergency medical service (EMS) responders who provide medical assistance during an incident involving a hazardous substance release. This guide is intended for employers of EMS responders and discusses the measures these employers need to take to protect their EMS respon- ders from becoming additional victims while on the front line of medical response".

Emergency Response Guide Book 2008: PHPR competency 3.1, 3.2, 2.5,

"This guide book is for First Responders during the initial phase of transportation of dangerous and hazardous goods; proper shipping documents, identifying transport tankers, identifying railroad cars, who to call for assistance, hazardous classification system, placards, hazard identification codes, pipeline transposition, and much more."

Hospital and Community Emergency Response : PHPR competency 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Heartland Centers for Public Health & Community Capacity Development: PHPR competency 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

COURSES BELOW are provided by Heartland Centers

Basics of Incident Management Systems in Greater St. Louis Area

CD-ROM for NIMS (National Incident Management Systems) for Fire and EMS in St. Louis

The Collection: Tabletop Exercise for Public Health Preparedness

CD-ROM Evaluate and improve the agencies response plan, exercise responders and key stakeholders during an emergency event with these 45 -50 exercises covering Multiple, Biological, and Chemical agents, Explosives and Natural Disasters.

Disaster Preparedness for Environmental Health Specialists

Emergency Preparedness for Governing Bodies NALBOH Course

Emerging Infectious Diseases: A General, Clinical and Public Health Resource

Introduction to Emergency Preparedness for All Nurses Online and CD

Mass Shelter CD_ROM

NIMS: An Introduction for Public Health

P3: Plan, Prepare, Protect: A Community Preparedness Tool

Clean Hands Help Prevent the Flu

Genreal Instructions for Disposal of Respirators

Mask and Respirator Usages

Put Your Hand Together

Influenza Antivirals (Pan Flu Preparedness for LHDs, Session 5)

Influenza Vaccines (Pan Flu Preparedness for LHDs, Session 6)

Risk Communication: Effectively Communication with the Media During a Public Health Crisis

Emergency Preparedness Including Bioterrorism: An All Hazards Course for Local Boards of Health Online Certification

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The Community

CDC Capabilities Videos and Files( 3.1 MB): 1, 2, 7, 15

Community and Hospital Emergency Response : PHPR competency 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

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