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Session: Local and Regional Responses to Public Health Epidemics and/or Disasters
4017.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Local and Regional Responses to Public Health Epidemics and/or Disasters
This sessions will: list five educational interventions that will heighten the community's capacity five educational interventions that will heighten the community's capability to participate in an emergency response, identify five stations a clinic will need to prophylax large numbers of people and describe the potential of applications of GIS mapping to emergency preparedness.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1)list five educational interventions that will heighten the community's capacity five educational interventions that will heighten the community's capability to participate in an emergency response; 2)idnetify five stations a clinic will need to prophylax large numbers of people and 3)recognize the potential of applications of GIS mapping to emergency preparedness.
Moderator(s):Ronald D. Deprez
8:30 AMLocal public health uses incident command system (ICS) to combat hepatitis A in Boston  [ Recorded presentation ]
Pat Tormey, RN, MPH, Suzanne Crowther, BA, MPH, Julia Gunn, RN, MPH, Michelle Canning, RN, BSN, Justin Pendarvis, MPH, Pam Coppinger, RN, BSN, Kate Matthews, RN, BA, M. Anita Barry, MD, MPH
8:45 AMImpact of bioterrorism (BT) regionalization on local public health departments in Kansas  [ Recorded presentation ]
Ruth Wetta-Hall, RN, PhD, MPH, MS, Mary Beth Herrmann, RN, BS, Susan Kang, JD
9:00 AMEmergency preparedness planning for local health departments  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jeffrey Turell, MD, Scott Frank, Chris Kippes, MS
9:15 AMUsing epidemiological methods to validate the need for community education to ensure success of emergency response plans
Witold Migala, PhD, MPH, Hilda Zuniga, Shane Mathew, MPH, Michael J. Kazda, MA
9:30 AMProcess and outcomes of creating regional public health infrastructures in Massachusetts
Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH, Amie Shei, BA, Christine M. Judge, MS, Mike Stoto, PhD, Loris J. Elqura, MS, Harold Cox, MSSW, Gilbert Nick, Jonathan L. Burstein, MD, Suzanne K. Condon, MS
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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