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PEDS 2. Preventive Medicine in Humanitarian Emergencies
Keyword(s)
clean water needs, clinic logs, monitoring systems, population, preventive medicine, rapid needs assessment, risk factors, sanitation, shelter, vectors
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Learning Objectives
Gathering and Using Population Data
- Recognize the difference between standard clinical practice and preventive medicine
- Recall the ways in which, after a disaster, public health measures have a higher priority than caring for individual patients.
- Describe and apply population evaluation tools such as rates and underlying causes of disease present in a given community affected by a disaster.
- Recall major components of a population evaluation: demographics, predisaster health conditions, an emergency needs assessment, health-care system evaluation, and establishing a surveillance program.
- Complete the major components of an emergency needs assessment. Draft disaster response plans using community resources (transportation, communication, security).
Post-Disaster Intervention Priorities
- Establish emergency intervention priorities following a disaster.
- Describe how the modes of disease transmission affect the intervention priorities after a disaster.
Surveillance Cycle
- Use the surveillance cycle to help make rational health-care decisions.
- Understand the key role that primary care doctors and pediatricians play in the compilation of quality information, while simultaneously attending individual patients.
- Use this information in an appropriate way for decision making.
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