Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health 
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Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services] (HHS ASPR). Published: 5/1/2020.
This one-page fact sheet from TRACIE (Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange) provides answers to frequently asked questions about the use of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, and lists telehealth facts in a COVID-19 and Telehealth Snapshot.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Standard Precautions: Waste Management
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 5/2020.
This course provides information about the different categories of waste and the process for waste management. Health care waste includes all waste generated by health, research, and laboratory facilities in the course of providing health care services. Participants will learn to describe the best practices for minimizing, segregating, collecting, transporting, and storing health care waste.
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NMVVRC (National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center) Tip Sheets
Source: National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center (NMVVRC). Published: 5/2020.
This web page provides tip sheets for victim service providers, on topics that include mass violence during COVID-19, death notifications, priorities and shifting responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, and unexpected challenges after mass violence.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
NCPDP Emergency Preparedness Information Version 1.7
Source: National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP). Published: 5/2020.
This 63-page document has been updated with specific guidance related to pharmacist-led COVID-19 testing, as well as other updates that provide standards-based guidance and resources to the pharmacy industry during a declared national emergency such as natural disaster or pandemic.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
COVID-19: Caring for Our Health Care Heroes During COVID-19
Source: American Hospital Association (AHA). Published: 5/2020.
This four-page document provides some ways to help care for and support health care heroes during the COVID-19 pandemic, which presents unique mental health stress points for health care workers, such as putting their families and colleagues at risk for exposure to the virus, making difficult decisions about how to conserve supplies and prioritize treatment, working extended shift hours, and confronting an unimaginable death toll.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Partnership for Evidence-Based Response (PERC) to COVID-19
Source: Resolve to Save Lives. Published: 5/2020.
This web page provides information about the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC), a public-private partnership that supports evidence-based measures to reduce the impact of COVID-19 on African Union Member States. PERC member organizations are Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention; Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies; the World Health Organization; the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team; and the World Economic Forum.
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Psychological First Aid in the COVID-19 Outbreak Response
Source: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Published: 5/2020.
This basic training in psychological first aid for COVID-19 outbreak response package was developed in response to the urgent need for training on how to support people in distress because of the COVID-19 outbreak. It includes interactive online training using the accompanying PowerPoints, videos, and participants' worksheet, or the training can be recorded for participants to follow when it fits their schedule.
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Rural Test and Trace Toolkit: RT3
Source: VashonBePrepared. Published: 5/2020.
This web page describes a testing strategy that allowed a rural community to launch a successful testing site in less than three weeks using local resources, a volunteer workforce, and without resources from the county ’s public health system that was already stretched thin. Following this blueprint, rural and tribal communities could stand up similar testing in one week using volunteer or professional medical and non-medical staff. Documents and printed materials are included on this page.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Public Health and Social Measures for COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Operations in Low Capacity and Humanitarian Settings
Source: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). Published: 5/2020.
This 29-page guidance outlines how key public health and social measures needed to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spread and the impact of the disease can be adapted for use in low capacity and humanitarian settings. The recommendations outlined need to be adjusted to the scale of transmission, context, and resources, in order to achieve the objective of managing COVID-19, namely to reduce transmission and facilitate the detection and management of infected and exposed individuals within the ...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Process and Documentation of Informed Consent for Subjects Involved in Research
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 5/2020.
This course for healthcare workers and teams in a biocontainment unit environment provides information on many aspects of informed consent and focuses on the unique challenges with special pathogen research. This includes the process of informed consent, general requirements, telephone consent, child assent, consent of vulnerable populations, and the documentation of that process.
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Use of Proning: Implications for Your Patients and Your Team
Source: National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC). Published: 5/1/2020.
This one-hour webinar discusses the clinical importance and indications of proning, and describes the process of proning for COVID-19 cases, focusing on strategies employed and lessons learned.
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Potential Public Health Impact of COVID-19 on Malaria in Africa: Report 18
Source: Imperial College London. Published: 5/1/2020.
The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to have wide-reaching implications for malaria and its control. This nine-page report attempts to quantify the direct impact that the spread of COVID-19 will have on Plasmodium falciparum malaria morbidity and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa using mathematical models of COVID-19 and malaria.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Critical Care Surge Capacity in U.S. Hospitals Strategies for Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Source: RAND Corporation. Published: 5/2020.
This four-page document provides a list of strategies to help U.S. hospitals create critical care surge capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The list was created using a review of scientific literature about past outbreaks and the current COVID-19 pandemic, a survey of frontline clinicians conducted in collaboration with the American College of Emergency Physicians, and two roundtables conducted via teleconference with leading emergency and critical care physicians and public health and preparedness experts from around the country.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Strengthening the Health Systems Response to COVID-19: Technical guidance #4: Community Pharmacy
Source: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Published: 5/1/2020.
The purpose of this four-page paper is to support pharmacists and other staff working in community pharmacies with guidance on the issues raised by the COVID-19 outbreak. It supports the operationalization of the policy recommendations for the World Health Organization European Region on strengthening the health system response to COVID-19.
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Ten Ways Healthcare Systems Can Operate Effectively During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 5/1/2020.
Based on the experiences of healthcare systems as they respond to COVID-19, this guidance provides 10 practical approaches that can be used to protect healthcare personnel (HCP), patients, and communities, and operate effectively during the pandemic.
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