New Jersey State – Somerset County All-Hazards Preparedness or Operations Plan
Locate your county or city All-Hazards Preparedness or Operations Plan, or your Emergency Response Plan for your Community Health Center. This can usually be found on the health department web site – check with Google to locate it. Evaluate this plan and address the following:
What are your thoughts on alignment of the plan?
Is it well developed? Are resources and stakeholders identified and aligned?
What are any identified gaps or areas for improvement? Strengths? If you were to design an exercise for this plan, what type of exercise would you design and why?
Who would the players be?
Your 2-3 page paper should follow current APA guidelines. Apply epidemiological methods to the breadth of settings and situations in public health practice. Assess population needs, assets and capacities that affect communities’ health. Demonstrate approaches to assess, prevent, and control environmental and/or occupational health hazards.
Communicate on oral and public health issues.