A Community Checklist for Health Sector Resilience Informed by Hurricane Sandy

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• Alternative Title:
  Health Secur
• Personal Author:
  Toner, Eric S. ; McGinty, Meghan ; Schoch-Spana, Monica ; Rose, Dale A. ; Watson, Matthew ; Echols, Erin ; Carbone, Eric G.
• Description:
  This is a checklist of actions for healthcare, public health, nongovernmental organizations, and private entities to use to strengthen the resilience of their community's health sector to disasters. It is informed by the experience of Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey and analyzed in the context of findings from other recent natural disasters in the United States. The health sector is defined very broadly, including-in addition to hospitals, emergency medical services (EMS), and public health agencies-healthcare providers, outpatient clinics, long-term care facilities, home health providers, behavioral health providers, and correctional health services. It also includes community-based organizations that support these entities and represent patients. We define health sector resilience very broadly, including all factors that preserve public health and healthcare delivery under extreme stress and contribute to the rapid restoration of normal or improved health sector functioning after a disaster. We present the key findings organized into 8 themes. We then describe a conceptual map of health sector resilience that ties these themes together. Lastly, we provide a series of recommended actions for improving health sector resilience at the local level. The recommended actions emphasize those items that individuals who experienced Hurricane Sandy deemed to be most important. The recommendations are presented as a checklist that can be used by a variety of interested parties who have some role to play in disaster preparedness, response, and recovery in their own communities. Following a general checklist are supplemental checklists that apply to specific parts of the larger health sector.
• Keywords:
  Checklist Civil Defense Cyclonic Storms Delivery Of Health Care Disaster Planning Emergency Medical Services Health Sector Hospital Preparedness/Response Humans Hurricane Sandy Medical Management/Response Public Health Preparedness/Response Residence Characteristics Resilience Resilience, Psychological Risk Factors

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• Source:
  Health Secur. 15(1):53-69
• Pubmed ID:
  28192055
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5551499
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  15
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cca8319837e204dbbbef6f27d048338fcd9bbd5cd15b0950ba4dcdfc40af47e2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/47633/cdc_47633_DS1.pdf
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