This course focuses on the myriad of activities that define the first phase of emergency and disaster management, namely planning and preparedness. Highlights of the curricula include the hazard vulnerability analysis, development of an emergency operations plan and understanding the importance of mitigation strategies to reduce risk to a community, agency or hospital.
– The required Textbooks for this course (please see the syllabus):
Required:
1. Disaster Medicine, Comprehensive Principles and Practice 2011, Koenig and Schultz
2. Disaster Policy & Politics, 2nd Ed., Richard Sylves
3. Emergency Planning, Perry and Lindell, 2007
4. Select journal articles – posted under Topics of Study
5. *Mass Notification and Crisis Communications, Denise C. Walker
*only one chapter is used from this book for this course (although the text is used in other DMM courses); the chapter is provided electronically in Topics of Study.
Suggested:
Disaster Medicine, Ciottone
– THE RESOURCES OF THIS WEEK (taken form the organizer I’ve already sent you) (PLEASE USE SOME OF THEM WHEN DOIN G THE ASSIGNMENT OF THIS WEEK):
– 1. Perry and Lindell chapters 1 and 14
– 2. Koenig and Schultz chapter 1
– 3. Ciottone chapter 25
– 4. Selected journal articles
– The assignment of this week, which will be answered in several paragraphs, is as follows:
Call your local emergency management office, department, official or hospital committee chairman/hospital emergency manager (if you are in healthcare and this choice is easier). Planning and preparedness account for a significant amount of an emergency manager’s time in a given week. Write several paragraphs to summarize the brief discussion you should have with him/her about how the changing world in which we live will make the process of emergency planning either more or less difficult. Cite concepts in the Emergency Planning text, Koenig and Schultz or Ciottone.
Also find one peer-reviewed journal article which helps to back up your or your expert’s opinions.
– Please follow ALL the previous instructions AND USE THE REFERENCES MENTIONED IN THE QUESTION, PLEASE.
– and I don’t know what to do regarding the last part f the question which says:
Also find one peer-reviewed journal article which helps to back up your or your expert’s opinions.
Best regards!
