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Now we’ve come to the slide
titled, “Develop a Plan for Preparedness”
This is where you as the instructor really need to motivate the
audience. They have just heard an introduction, and most likely now they are
sitting there thinking, “oh no, it’s bad, I haven’t done any planning, it’s
all so complicated, I can’t handle this.”
This slide is where you’re going to motivate the audience to go out
after this talk and set up their local response plan, so your lecture needs
to be shaded towards whatever group predominates in your audience.
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If your audience is
comprised of mostly public health personnel, their emergency preparedness
effort will entail setting up protocols, actual detailed plans and procedures
for emergency response in their city or town. How will they issue a quarantine order? Who will give advice to the police, fire,
EMS, the mayor, the governor? How
will they communicate with the general public? What information will they provide? What is their plan for
conducting mass vaccination or mass administration of prophylaxis? These are all public health questions, and
it is the responsibility of local public health officials to have answers to
these questions in advance, in the form of detailed protocols.
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