Report on the Domestic Natural Disaster Health Workforce is officially released

The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - ncdmph.usuhs.edu - February 1, 2012

Greetings NCDMPH Stakeholders,

The NCDMPH is extremely proud to release the Report on the Domestic Natural Disaster Health Workforce, a landscape analysis describing selected aspects of the health professions workforce who would respond to a catastrophic domestic natural disaster.

As the main output of our workforce project, the report analyzes the core Federal departments supporting Emergency Support Function #8 (ESF#8) by examining three key occupational sub-groups (emergency and critical care physicians, emergency and critical care nurses, and paramedics) at the national, state and local levels.

The report offers 14 recommendations on a number of issues, including: double counting of responders, volunteer failure to respond, an aging medical workforce, human capital development, personnel asset visibility, readiness and the deployment of subunits.

Our hope is that reading this report will spark discussion and lead to improved competencies and standards for our nation’s disaster education curricula.

We would love to hear from you after reading the report, so please “like” us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or email us at ***@***.*** with your thoughts, comments and questions. We also hope that you will share this report with your colleagues and link to it on relevant websites.

The report is also available as a PDF.

Regards,

The NCDMPH Staff

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About - The Workforce Project - http://ncdmph.usuhs.edu/Site_n/FieldResearch/2011-09Workforce.htm

Abstract - Report on the Domestic Natural Disaster Health Workforce

http://ncdmph.usuhs.edu/Site_n/FieldResearch/2011Workforce/2011wf-Abstract.htm