Interim Guidance on Antiviral Recommendations for Patients with Confirmed or Suspected Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection and Close Contacts
Interim Guidance on Antiviral Recommendations for Patients with Confirmed or Suspected Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection and Close Contacts
In accordance with Governor Richard Codey’s Executive Order 50, compliance with the National Incident Management System (NIMS) is a prerequisite to obtaining any federal preparedness assistance. The NIMS is intended to provide “a consistent, flexible, and adjustable national framework to enable first responders at all levels of government, along with the private sector and non governmental organizations, to work together effectively and efficiently to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, regardless of cause, size or complexity, including acts of catastrophic terrorism.”
Essex Regional Health Commission has provided the NIMS Training Guideline from the Department of Homeland Security. This list provides the required trainings as well as what personnel should take them.
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Training Requirements (Click on Links for Classes Available Online) |
Federal/State/Local/Tribal/Private Sector & Non-governmental personnel to include:
Entry level first responders & disaster workers
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Federal/State/Local/Tribal/Private Sector & Non-governmental personnel to include:
First line supervisors, single resource leaders, field supervisors, and other emergency management/response personnel that require a higher level of ICS/NIMS Training.
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Federal/State/Local/Tribal/Private Sector & Non-governmental personnel to include:
Middle management including strike team leaders, task force leaders, unit leaders, division/group supervisors, branch directors, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center staff.
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Federal/State/Local/Tribal/Private Sector & Non-governmental personnel to include:
Command and general staff, select department heads with multi-agency coordination system responsibilities, area commanders, emergency managers, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center managers.
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1. Specialized ICS 100 training is available for Hospital/Healthcare, Law Enforcement and Public Works
2. Specialized ICS 200 training is available for Healthcare Organizations
NOTE- This chart was obtained from the NIMS website http://www.nimsonline.com/
Links to other useful resources
New Jersey Medical Reserve Corps
https://njmrc.nj.gov/hcpr/index.html
An easy-to-remember telephone number that connects callers to the human services they need
Ready Together NJ – A public health guide to emergency planning
http://nj.gov/health/er/documents/citizens_guide.pdf
State of NJ Bioterrorism Preparedness Links Page
www.state.nj.us/health/er/erlinks.htm
New Jersey Health Alert Network
Center for Disease Control’s Bioterrorism Page
Be Ready and Prepared
New Jersey Homeland Security
Helping Children Cope with Disaster
http://www.fema.gov/rrr/children.shtm
Children, Terrorism and Disasters
www.aap.org/terrorism/index.html
FEMA
American Red Cross
Preparedness for People with Disabilities
www.redcross.org/services/disaster/beprepared/disability.html
www.state.nj.us/njoem/preparedness_disabarc_contents.html
Preparedness for Pets
Emergency medical multilingual phrasebook
USDOT 2004 Emergency Response Guidebook
http://hazmat.dot.gov/pubs/erg/gydebook.htm
Health & Safety Information for Emergency Response – Internet Links
http://www.nj.gov/health/eoh/peoshweb/er_internet_links.pdf
Goal: Enhance, develop, and ensure the use of statewide, integrated surveillance systems and epidemiologic capacity for the rapid detection and control of unusual outbreaks of illness that may be the result of bioterrorism, other outbreaks of infectious disease, and other public health threats and emergencies within the LINCS region.
What is Epidemiology?
A less entertaining, but more conventional, definition of epidemiology is “the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states in specified populations, and the application of this study to control health problems.” A look at the key words will help illuminate the meaning:
Study—Epidemiology is the basic science of public health. It’s a highly quantitative discipline based on principles of statistics and research methodologies.
Distribution—Epidemiologists study the distribution of frequencies and patterns of health events within groups in a population. To do this, they use descriptive epidemiology, which characterizes health events in terms of time, place, and person.
Determinants—Epidemiologists also attempt to search for causes or factors that are associated with increased risk or probability of disease. This type of epidemiology, where we move from questions of “who,” “what,” “where,” and “when” and start trying to answer “how” and “why,” is referred to as analytical epidemiology.
Health-related states—Although infectious diseases were clearly the focus of much of the early epidemiological work, this is no longer true. Epidemiology as it is practiced today is applied to the whole spectrum of health-related events, which includes chronic disease, environmental problems, behavioral problems, and injuries in addition to infectious disease.
Populations—One of the most important distinguishing characteristics of epidemiology is that it deals with groups of people rather than with individual patients.
Control—Finally, although epidemiology can be used simply as an analytical tool for studying diseases and their determinants, it serves a more active role. Epidemiological data steers public health decision making and aids in developing and evaluating interventions to control and prevent health problems. This is the primary function of applied, or field, epidemiology.
Surveillance:
New updated numbers on vaccine effectiveness for 2012-13 season.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6207a2.htm?s_cid=mm6207a2_w
New Jersey Administrative Code 8:57 for the Communicable Diseases: http://nj.gov/health/cd/reporting.shtml
Case Definitions of the Communicable Diseases: http://nj.gov/health/cd/find.shtml
Communicable Disease Forms: http://nj.gov/health/cd/forms.shtml
Vaccine Preventable Disease: http://nj.gov/health/cd/vpdp/index.shtml
http://nj.gov/health/cd/westnile/index.shtml
West Nile Virus Surveillance: