Question

Please provide references:

Analyze the measures your state (Georgia) and local community have in place to prepare hospitals for two (2) different types of threats to public health. Does the design of these measures of threats allow for the sufficient protection of the population in the face of an imminent threat. Justify your response.

Examine two to three (2-3) changes to the preparedness policies of your chosen state (Georgia) and federal government agencies. Determine the significant social, political, or environmental factors that have influenced these changes. Provide support for your rationale.

Answer 1

Hospital as in any states are faced with different challanges and threats to public health.The Hospitals in Georgia have put up several measures and protocols in meeting the needs of the population .The type of threats that will be discussed here includes:

• Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC)

• Healthcare-Associated Infection.   

1. Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC): The aim os this service is to reduce child and youth mortality and morbidity sustained due to severe illness or trauma ensuring safety , well integrated emergency medical service system backed by optimal resources including primary prevention of illness and injury, acute care, and rehabilitation, is provided to children and adolescents as well as adults. The services is supported and works with other collaboration which includes federal EMSC program , the Office of EMS/Trauma, Bioterrorism, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) . This service provided has seen a grave improvement ans reduction of the incident cases enabling flexible measures to tackle with accident and injury issues.

Healthcare-Associated Infection(HAI's): In any institution of health care the need to be safe and preventing cross infection has been on rise in awareness and experimentation based research to reduce its incidences.HAIs can result from patients’ own bacteria, be associated with surgery or invasive medical devices, or be due to exposure to bacteria, viruses, fungi or spores transmitted from contaminated healthcare workers' hands, environmental surfaces, or medical equipment. Bacteria found in healthcare settings are often resistant to commonly prescribed antibiotics, making HAIs more difficult to treat. Not only do these infections have a negative personal impact on patients and families, they are a major contributing component to the nation's increasing healthcare costs. The vision of the Georgia HAI Program is to eliminate HAIs for Georgia patients. Keeping in view of the above service and HAI's the protocols and measures undertaken by the healthcare has shown to be effective in the protection of the population in the face of an imminent threat.This has resulted in decreasing the mortality and morbidity conserning in emmergency preparedness and intervention to cope with the crisis .

Another report remarks an incident as "On 13 June 2015, heavy rains lasting five to six hours caused mud flow, and flash flooding of the rivers Vere and Mtkvari seriously hitting different central districts of the capital city Tbilisi and the surrounding villages. The disaster claimed 20 lives, left 3 people missing, affected 380 families, 280 of which were left temporarily homeless in Tbilisi."This is another example of a natural disaster which has determined to bring about changes in the public health sector to have a measure zand guidelines to take up necessary action to prevent or bring the population to safety.

This year 2018 Preparedness Summit which was the premier national conference in the field of public health and healthcare preparedness exploring the theme, “Strengthening National Health Security: Mastering Ordinary Responses, Building Resilience for Extraordinary Events.”Speaking of which the collection of inovative minds and ideas for betterment of the public health is an event example in bringing about meeting the holistic health needs in all sectors.  

The references has been collected as per Georgia: Floods - Emergency Plan of Action Final Report (MDRGE010)Published on 18 Dec 2015 , Emergency preparedness-Georgia Department of public health as updated on April 2018.