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Volume 7 - August 2013

Contents

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On the Cover

Editorial

  • “It's déjà vu all over again”

  • James J. James
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    25 April 2013, pp. 1-2
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  • Playbill

  • James J. James
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    21 January 2014, pp. 544-545
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Editorial

  • A Time to Act

  • James J. James
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    17 September 2013, pp. 338-339
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  • Medical Response to Bombings: The Application of Lessons Learned to a Tragedy

  • Richard B. Schwartz, Richard W. Sattin, Richard C. Hunt
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    11 June 2013, pp. 114-115
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  • Adapting to Change

  • James J. James
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    26 November 2013, p. 440
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Letters to the Editor

  • Community cooperation as a disaster medicine competency

  • Adam Jon Lebowitz
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    16 December 2013, p. 546
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  • Working Through Disaster: Re-establishing Mental Health Care After Hurricane Katrina

  • Natalie D. Baker, Martha S. Feldman, Victoria Lowerson
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    15 August 2013, pp. 222-231
  • Objective

    Our research explored how mental health care providers continued to work during and after Hurricane Katrina.

    Methods

    We interviewed 32 practitioners working in the New Orleans mental health care community during and after Hurricane Katrina. Through qualitative data analysis, we developed three temporal periods of disruption: the evacuation period, the surreal period, and the new normal period. We analyzed the actions informants took during these time periods.

    Results

    The mental health care providers adapted to disruption by displaying two forms of flexibility: doing different tasks and doing tasks differently. How much and how they engaged in these forms of flexibility varied during the three periods.

    Conclusions

    Informants’ actions helped to create system resilience by adjusting the extent to which they were doing different tasks and the ways in which they were doing tasks differently during the three time periods. Their flexibility allowed them to provide basic care and adapt to changed circumstances. Their flexibility also contributed to maintaining a skilled workforce in the affected region. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2013;7:222-231)

Board of Directors

Editorial

  • Medical Training for Nuclear and Radiological Events: The “Atomic Age” Returns

  • Cham E. Dallas
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    26 November 2013, pp. 441-442
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  • Coordinated Action in Response to Bombings: From La Belle to Boston

  • James J. James
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    11 June 2013, pp. 116-117
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Brief Report

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  • Proposals for Aligning Disaster Health Competency Models

  • Kenneth W. Schor, Brian A. Altman
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    25 April 2013, pp. 8-12

  • To standardize the key building blocks of disaster health competency models (content, structure, and process), we recommend a reinterpretation of the research, development, test, and evaluation construct (RDT&E) as a novel organizing framework for creating and presenting disaster health competency models. This approach seeks to foster national alignment of disaster health competencies. For scope and completeness, model developers should consider the need and identify appropriate content in at least 4 broad areas: disaster-type domain, systems domain, clinical domain, and public health domain. The whole disaster health competency model should reflect the challenges of the disaster setting to acknowledge the realities of disaster health practice and to shape the education and workforce development flowing from the model. Additional issues for consideration are whether competency models should address response and recovery just-in-time learning and whether the concept of “daily routine doctrine” can contribute to disaster health competency models. The recommendations seek to establish a strategic reference point for disaster competency model alignment within the health workforce.(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2013;7:8-12)

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