question archive Public Health and Emergency Preparedness This should be very lengthy explanation for me to have a full understanding, meaning all areas of this question should be thoroughly answer, very clear Please include references to back up the response What is the role of the public health in emergency preparedness and response? Discuss the mistakes that were made during and after Hurricane Katrina (related to public health and/or emergency preparedness)
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Public Health and Emergency Preparedness
This should be very lengthy explanation for me to have a full understanding,
meaning all areas of this question should be thoroughly answer, very clear
Please include references to back up the response
When trying to explain why the emergency planning process is more important than the plan itself, we can look no further than Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina proved that a plan with 500 pages of crap in it can't bring back a community or can it provide food or water. Here locally I was witness to individual, who were more concerned on what a book said then the actually planning of the response. It took a regional director from FEMA to literally throw the Emergency Management Response Plan, away and say "This book is no longer to be used" In that we are to start now actively plan our response which he stated that we should have been doing the whole time instead of relying on a book that was dated "1996" and it now being 2005. This is why it is so important to have and adopt a continuous planning process, because just maybe if we have had done so communities along the Mississippi Gulf Coast wouldn't have to have to rely so much on outside organizations such as churches and large businesses for help. IN turn they would of already have had trucks with ice, water, gas, and food on standby.
Step-by-step explanation
See certain political persons in the room were more worried about making a decision, because how it would make them look toward certain communities, in that they didn't want to look like they favored one over the other. Which is why sometimes there is so much resistance toward the planning process, for some feel that more are benefited from the planning process. For example I live next to the second largest oil refinery in the country. A large amount of resources went into making sure it was taken care of. I mean I even flew in on HMX 1 with the president in to Chevron two days after Karina. "I was assigned to watch over general security". To get back to the planning. What political individuals forgot is that "Planning must be community-based, representing the whole population and its needs. Understanding the composition of the population—such as accounting for people with disabilities, others with access and functional needs, and for the needs of children—must occur from the outset of the planning effort" (FEMA)