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Society matters: What steps can be taken to minimise elite panic?
J Bus Contin Emer Plan
January 2022
Service Improvement, Corporate Operations, St John Ambulance New Zealand, Justice & Emergency Services Precinct, PO Box 1443, Christchurch 8140.
This paper examines the concept of panic, drawing on the experience of the people of New Orleans in the lead-up and aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Of particular interest is how residents of the city were affected by the response from the city's elite leadership. The paper discusses the lessons learned from this event and provides recommendations to reduce elite panic and improve cooperation between emergency management leaders and those governing the communities, regions and countries they serve, with a view to enhancing social capital.
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Int Rev Psychiatry
December 2021
Disasters invariably result in a surge in demand for mental health services, and this surge quickly exceeds available mental health resources. The pursuit of alternative sources of psychological support for communities adversely affected by disasters has therefore been necessitated. This paper describes the application of an awarding-winner, empirically validated, model for psychological support and its applicability for enhancing community disaster mental health resources that are consistent with United Nations' recommendations for a "whole society" approach to disaster mental health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLessons learned from the investigation and management of an outbreak of Shigella flexneri associated with a restaurant in London, 2019-2020.
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South London Health Protection Team, UK Health Security Agency, London, United Kingdom.
Background: Foodborne outbreaks of Shigella flexneri infection are uncommon in the UK. In November 2019, the United Kingdom Health Security Agency investigated an outbreak of S. flexneri associated with a fast-food restaurant in London.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCrisis management checklist: lessons learned from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Global Surg Educ
July 2022
Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 1025 Walnut Street, Suite 620, Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA.
"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." Never has this quote, uttered in response to a challenger's reported plan to take the title away from heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, rang truer than in the past 20 months as the global population wrestles with the fallout on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. While countless lives were disrupted both directly and indirectly during this time, members of the medical community bore the brunt of this fallout in their personal lives while being asked to perform above capacity in their professional lives simultaneously.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDisaster Vector Control in Mississippi After Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned.
J Am Mosq Control Assoc
June 2020
Bureau of Environmental Health, Mississippi Department of Health, P.O. Box 1700, Jackson, MS 39215.
Hurricane Katrina devastated the Mississippi Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, causing an ecological disaster. Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) entomologists established a vector control program in affected areas with the following objectives: 1) helping local vector control agencies reestablish services, 2) performing mosquito surveillance, and 3) establishing mosquito larviciding and adulticiding where necessary. The MSDH personnel also helped write Action Request Forms requesting assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for increased ground spraying in the 6 lower counties.
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