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5. Conclusions and Recommendations for Effective Prevention and Response
5. Conclusions and Recommendations for Effective Prevention and Response
Pages 135-142
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Effective preparedness and response strategies will help to limit the psychological consequences of a range of terrorism events. Universal preparedness is the conceptual basis used to ensure that all hazards, all populations, and all phases are addressed.
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ensuring preparedness though a comprehensive public health strategy. The sequence in which the recommendations are presented does not reflect a priority order.
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In these efforts, HHS should partner with the Red Cross and the Department of Defense, and public and private mental health care providers among others. Recommendation 2-2: HHS, including NIH, SAMHSA, and CDC, should develop public health surveillance for pre-event, event, and post-event factors relevant to addressing the psychological consequences of terrorism and should develop methods for applying the findings of this surveillance through appropriate interventions for groups of special interest.
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Recommendation 3-2: Academic centers and professional associations and organizations, in collaboration with HHS, including SAMHSA, NIH, and CDC, should ensure the education and training of relevant professionals in health fields, including primary care providers, school-based health care providers, public health officials, and the public safety sector, in the psychological consequences of terrorism. (Chapter 3, page 82; Chapter 4, pages 114-115~.
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Workplace Preparedness Finding 3-3: The workplace is a newly recognized and important environment in which to address public health planning for the psychological consequences of terrorism. Some examples of new occupationally exposed groups include construction workers, postal workers, utility workers, public health workers, and children and teachers in schools.
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Topics of study may include, but are not limited to, the characteristics of terrorism that may differentiate its impact from other disasters; impact of terrorism on functional indicators such as marital and family relationships and school performance, understanding varied effect of terrorism events, and the impact of media accounts of terrorism events on psychological consequences. · Whenever federal funding agencies such as the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
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The nation's present mental health system is an essential, but inadequate, resource to meet all the expected needs. Recommendation 4-1: HHS and the Department of Homeland Security should analyze federal, state, and local preparedness for terrorism to ensure that the nation's public health infrastructure is prepared to adequately respond to the psychological consequences across a continuum of possible terrorism events, including weapons of mass destruction.
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· The groups and organizations that should be involved in planning to ensure a comprehensive response include, but are not limited to, the following: The American Red Cross, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense (including the National Guard and Reserve) , the Department of Education, state emergency management planners, mental health practitioners, workplaces (workplace health programs)
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