Natural Disasters and Mass-Casualty Events Affecting Children and Families: A Description of Emergency Preparedness and the Role of the Primary Care Physician

• 2010

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• Robert Olympia; Ruby Rivera; Steven Heverley; Uchechi Anyanwu; Madeline Gregorits
PMID: 20356922DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0009922810364657

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This article analyzes families' compliance with national disaster preparedness recommendations by distributing questionnaires in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and Bronx County, New York. The study found that a low percentage of families were familiar with community evacuation plans and had a family emergency response plan. Only 17% of respondents had discussed preparedness with their primary care physician, but this group showed higher compliance rates. Overall, the data indicates that most families are not meeting national preparedness recommendations, highlighting the importance of healthcare providers in promoting and improving disaster preparedness among families.

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Focus Areas: Everyday Emergency; Natural Disasters

Audience: Physicians

Emergency Management Stage: Preparedness (Prevention / Protection)

Collection: Disaster Research Literature Review

Keywords: Child Welfare; Civil Defense; Confidence Intervals; Disaster Planning; Disasters; Family; Family Characteristics; New York; Pennsylvania; Physician's Role; Physicians, Primary Care; Primary Health Care; Program Evaluation; Health Care Surveys; Physicians, Family; Mass Casualty Incidents; Emergencies; Surveys and Questionnaires

Institutions: Penn State Hershey Medical Center; Pennsylvania State University; Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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