Guide to Incorporating Electronic Resources in Population Monitoring Planning [GUIDE]

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Association of County & City Health Officials (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  As part of their public health preparedness efforts, many health department across the country are preparing for radiation emergencies. Radiological emergencies can be caused by transportation accidents, nuclear power plant accidents, explosive radiological dispersal devices (dirty bombs), radiation exposure devices, and improvised nuclear devices (INDs). To prepare for these types of events, health departments are working with partners in their communities to define the public health role in response efforts and develop radiation population monitoring plans. Population monitoring is the process of identifying, screening, and monitoring people for exposure to radiation or contamination with radioactive materials. To conduct population monitoring, jurisdictions often stand up sites known as community reception centers (CRCs). As part of population monitoring, jurisdictions collect a variety of individual-level data on each person that is processed at a CRC including contact and demographic information, radiation contamination information, and referral information. Jurisdictions may use paper-based and/or electronic systems to collect, manage, store, and utilize population monitoring data. From 2017–2018, both the CRC eTool and the RadResponder Population Monitoring Module were released to help jurisdictions with population monitoring data management. Table 1 describes general characteristics of each tool.
  
  This report was supported by Cooperative Agreement #5U38OT000172-05 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NACCHO is grateful for this support. The contents do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC. NACCHO does not promote or endorse any product or service mentioned in this document.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Emergencies Emergency Management Environmental Monitoring Nuclear Crisis Control Radiation Radiation Dosage Radiation Dosimetry Radiation Monitoring Radioactive Hazard Release
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement #5U38OT000172-05
• Pages in Document:
  7 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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  urn:sha256:284ed4cf9c48d14e3055af41c9e9c68a92804015df2503698b29135961d99116
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