Joint NACCD and NBSB Future Strategies for Children Report

• 2018

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The report highlights the critical importance of advancing the health security and resiliency of the nation’s youth. Tasked by the ASPR, the NACCD and NBSB developed future strategies to enhance pediatric healthcare in disasters. Key recommendations include strengthening ASPR’s leadership in emergency preparedness, expanding collaboration networks, ensuring domestic capability for medical countermeasures, prioritizing multi-hazard preparedness, increasing public engagement, enhancing disaster risk reduction, integrating preparedness into other health initiatives, improving data utilization, and advancing scientific research on disaster effects. The strategies aim to fortify the healthcare system's resilience, particularly for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

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Hazard: Everyday Emergency

Audiences: Nurses; Physicians; Public Health Professionals

Emergency Management Stage: Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Keywords: Child Health Services; Disaster Planning; Health Policy; Health Services Needs and Demand; Pediatrics; Public Health Administration; Resilience, Psychological; Strategic Planning; Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Emergencies

Institutions: Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR); U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); The National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters (NACCD)

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