ALLMedicine™ Disaster Planning Center

Mar 23rd, 2022 - The purpose of this study is to describe the experiences of home-based care providers (HBCP)  in providing care to older adults during the pandemic in order to inform future disaster planning, including during pandemics. Qualitative inquiry using ...

Mar 1st, 2022 - The following article was cleared for publication following peer review and upon the Editor-in-Chief's decision. The manuscript is an addition to the global health literature. The manuscript reads uneven in the current English version, but the top...

Dec 18th, 2021 - In disaster response, smartphone applications (or apps) are being used by the layperson, emergency first responders, and health care providers to aid in everything from incident reporting to clinical decision making. However, quality apps are ofte...

Dec 15th, 2021 - Many hospital units, including obstetric (OB) units, were unprepared when the novel coronavirus began sweeping through communities. National and international bodies, including the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control Prevention,...

Dec 4th, 2021 - We explored the challenges and lived experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic by interviewing 53 U.S.-based IPV advocates between June and November 2020. Advocates described how the COVID-19 pandemic li...

Mar 11th, 2021 - Disaster response and global health One step forward, two back… No adult alive today will live to see global gender parity. The 2020 World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report, published December 2019, assessed four dimensions of gender inequal.

Apr 22nd, 2020 - SARS CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome corona- virus 2) has challenged us all and will continue to do so for at least the next several months. This novel virus has uncovered our medical hubris and our collective failure to acknowledge our v.

Jan 29th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children are disproportionately affected by chemical and biological events, so they must be included in the planning and response when terrorism strikes, according to a policy statement from the American Academy of Pedi...

Oct 19th, 2015 - Pediatricians play an important role in preparing for natural and man-made disasters as well as treating families during and after such unpredictable and unpreventable events, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported in a policy statement. Desp.

Oct 19th, 2015 - Pediatricians should collaborate with federal, state, tribal, local, and regional institutions to ensure that children are cared for physically and emotionally during a disaster, according to a policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pe...