Public Health Professionals


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Public Health Professionals

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

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Guía de respuesta a emergencias de salud pública para directores de salud pública estatales, locales y tribales

Public Health Emergency Response Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Public Health Directors

Manual

Public Health Professionals

The Public Health Emergency Response Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Public Health Directors is an all-hazards reference tool for health professionals who are responsible for initiating the public health response during the first 24 hours (i.e., the acute phase) of an emergency or disaster. It provides useful information on the activation and integration of a jurisdiction’s public health system into the existing overall emergency response structure during the acute phase of an incident. It also contains guidance that may be unique to specific types of incidents, such as floods, earthquakes, and acts of terrorism.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

Pan American Health Organization 

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Manejo de Cadáveres en Situaciones de Desastre

Management of Dead Bodies in Disaster Situations

 

Manual

Disaster specialists and professionals

This manual provides the technical information needed to support authorities in the proper management of dead bodies. It is targeted to specialists in disasters and in management of human remains who are responsible for ensuring that bodies are treated in a dignified manner and that the human rights of those affected by disasters are respected.

 

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Hospitales Seguros:
Una responsabilidad colectiva,
Un indicador mundial de reducción de los desastres

Safe Hospitals:
A Collective Responsibility,
A Global Measure of Disaster Reduction

Policy paper

Disaster specialists and professionals

This document addresses issues related to the protection of critical health facilities, particularly hospitals, from the avoidable consequences of disasters.

 

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Guía de Preparativos de Salud Frente
a Erupciones Volcánicas

Health Preparedness Guidelines
for Volcanic Eruptions

Training Manual and PowerPoint presentations

Disaster specialists and professionals

These guidelines provide support material to prepare health contingency plans to deal with the emergencies caused by volcanic eruptions. The package consists of five modules dealing with health sector risks, protecting health services, damage and needs assessment, environmental risks and communications planning.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Mitigación de desastres en instalaciones de salud – Efectos del viento

Disaster Mitigation in Health Facilities Wind Effects

PowerPoint presentations with scripts, technical General Publications on disaster mitigation in health facilities and posters suitable for reproduction

Disaster specialists and professionals

This training material focuses on reducing the vulnerability of structural elements in hospitals and health facilities. It addresses non-structural elements and those that have special functions such as communication networks, gas and water pipes, electrical wiring, and medical equipment and supplies.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Protección de la salud mental
en situaciones de desastres y emergencias

Protecting Mental Health in Disaster and Emergency Situations)

Training manual

Disaster specialists and professionals

This training material focuses on early mental health interventions following disasters. It emphasizes a community mental health approach to interventions.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Vigilancia epidemiológica sanitaria en situaciones de desastre
Guía para el nivel local

Epidemiological Health Surveillance in Disasters—Guide for the Local Level

Training manual

Disaster specialists and professionals

This manual provides the technical information needed to conduct epidemiologic surveillance in disaster situations, especially at the local level.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Preparativos de salud para situaciones de desastres
Guía para el nivel local

Health Preparedness for Disasters—Guide for the Local Level

Training manual

Disaster specialists and professionals

This document provides a practical guide to disaster preparedness for local health agencies. It emphasizes community participation as a strategic tool for designing and implementing disaster preparedness plans. 

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

Manual de evaluación de daños y necesidades en salud
para situaciones de desastre

Damage and Needs Assessment in the Health Sector in Disaster Situations

 

Training manual

Disaster specialists and professionals

The purpose of this manual is to provide health sector officials with information related disaster response and recovery.  It covers topics such as epidemiologic surveillance, basic sanitation and health infrastructure.

 

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

 

Cultural Competence 

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Developing Cultural

Competence in Disaster Mental

Health Programs

Manual

Disaster mental health providers and workers, disaster specialists and professionals

The primary purpose of this guide is to provide background information, guiding principles, recommendations, and resources for developing culturally competent disaster mental health services. Disaster mental health providers and workers can use and adapt the guidelines set forth in this document to meet the unique characteristics of individuals and communities affected directly or indirectly by a full range of natural and human-made disasters.

 

Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

 

 Pandemic Flu/Influenza

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Cúbrase la boca al toser  

Cover Your Cough

 

Miami-Dade County Health Department

General Public

Poster developed by the Miami-Dade County Health Department which highlights strategies to prevent the spread of influenza.

Miami-Dade County Health Department

¿Se lavó las manos?

 

Did you wash your hands?

Miami-Dade County Health Department

General Public

Poster developed by the Miami-Dade County Health Department which highlights strategies to prevent the spread of influenza.

Miami-Dade County Health Department

Manos limpias para una buena salud

Good Health Starts with Clean Hands

Miami-Dade County Health Department

General Public

Poster developed by the Miami-Dade County Health Department which highlights strategies to prevent the spread of influenza.

Miami-Dade County Health Department

  *List Compiled by Miami CPHP 2006. 


Children

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