Facilitating Continuity of Healthcare after Disasters: What Do We Know?
The provision of healthcare is one of the major challenges following a disaster. This was evidenced following devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Consequences of the Katrina disaster illustrate the need to give more attention in disaster planning to redeveloping and sustaining health infrastructures. Numerous recommendations concerning the health infrastructures were put forth following the Hurricane. These include recommendations offered for improving health planning, disaster communications, medical materials and information resources, health policies, and administrative and human resources. As the recommendations suggest, disasters disrupt the lives of both patients and their providers. Physical and social needs impact health and chronic disease management, not merely medical emergences. Many of the problems related to provision of care identified following Hurricane Katrina, the Haitian earthquake and other disasters can be addressed with appropriate attention to healthcare issues during pre-disaster planning and networking. These recommendations have not been a focus of disaster planners.
Disasters Healthcare Resilience Chronic disease Continuity of care
Harvey L. White
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh PA, USA
国际会议
2012 International Conference on Public Administration(8th)(2012年公共管理国际会议 ICPA)
印度海德拉巴
英文
3-13
2012-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）