Strengthening Maternal and Infant Health Resilience Before Weather and Climate Disasters: Preparedness Resources from CDC’s Division of Reproductive Health

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• Alternative Title:
  J Womens Health (Larchmt)
• Personal Author:
  Galang, Romeo R. ; Meeker, Jessica R. ; Leonard, Jerome S. ; Hansen, Sabrina ; Sayyad, Ayeesha ; Waits, Grayson ; McArdle, Cristin E. ; Hall, Rebecca L.
• Description:
  This report describes opportunities to address emergency preparedness to incorporate the needs of pregnant and postpartum populations. This report briefly summarizes data on the impacts of weather and climate disasters on maternal and infant health and outlines opportunities for individuals, health care providers, and public health practitioners to increase capacity to prepare for these occurrences, which are becoming more frequent and costly. Specific resources from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Reproductive Health are shared to support individual preparedness, communication of disaster safety messages, and emergency preparedness planning capacity among health care providers and health departments.
• Subjects:
  Civil Defense Climate Change Disaster Planning Disasters Infant Infant, Newborn Infant Health Maternal Health Pregnancy Reproductive Health United States Weather

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• Keywords:
  Climate Disasters Emergency Preparedness And Response Infant Health Maternal Health Natural Disasters
• Source:
  J Womens Health (Larchmt). 33(10):1289-1295
• Pubmed ID:
  39129561
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11466707
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
• Topic:
  Healthy Living
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  11 pdf pages
• Volume:
  33
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:8d799b00bc6966572824b96cee7009849fbcfdfcb27779edde09563681e45686259f199f6af8f9bf3a11a72009d0673015f05ec59019dffd3fce1babc8c07b9a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/165788/cdc_165788_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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