Public Health Preparedness

Title Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Public health preparedness is a method by the government of the USA to cater for emergency response and involves protecting the public from emerging factors that might affect its health negatively. These emerging issues can be in the form of a disaster, terrorist attack or an outbreak of an infectious disease. As the new leader responsible for quality accompanied with safety for government health care, one must have strategic plans and policies put down under the standards of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC)’ to respond to public health preparedness. Therefore, it is vital to confirm public health preparedness has adequate measures to guide the health institution to prevent predicted disasters such as terrorist attacks, and protection of the public. In case of a terrorist attack to the hospital, a good leader should provide for a faster response to the disaster and ensure the patients and the public recover successfully within a shorter period. To achieve this, one needs to consider ten essential public health services that already exist. The existing ten essential public health services are crucial since they have policies that guide health institutions and create public awareness through mobilization of other related partners to help solve health-related issues. A good leader should implement and monitor these essential public health services emphasizing on the ones that relate to the situation and focus on the prevention of terrorist and the effects that the hospital can face during the emergency. Out of these essential public health services, these are the four most relevant public health services will handle the situation in case of a terror attack. Firstly, it is best to ‘inform, educate, and empower people about health issues’ (Hoss, Menon & Corso, 2016). Prevention should be created to the public and ensure every person is aware of the impending terror attack (Eisenstein, Finnegan, & Curran, 2014). Education is a valuable tool; it teaches and equips the public how to deal with terror attacks and informs the public on how to detect a possible terrorist. Moreover, Public should be aware of the channels of communication in case of attack and be ready for attacks and how to quickly respond to such situations. For example, lying down on the floor or finding a safe place to hide. Secondly, ‘evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services’ (Hoss, Menon & Corso, 2016). At this point, assessment is an essential tool to measure public health preparedness. Surveys like open-ended questionnaires can produce good results on public education and awareness on how to handle terror attacks. Statistics data should be able to let the leader aware of the depth of sensitization, and public preparedness. The knowledge will give information about how accessible are medical equipment, medical personnel, adequate finances and resources for the terror attack. Encourage free education and training to the clinics on handling emergency cases. Additionally, a crisis environment also calls for urgent assistance from other people beyond the medical fraternity. Therefore, the third is, ‘mobilize community partner...