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Strategic Plan to Demonstrate Long-Term Primary Care Need for Medically susceptible Populations Post-Disaster

Strategic Plan to Demonstrate Long-Term Primary Care need for medically susceptible Populations Post-Disaster

Introduction

The Environmental Public Health Disasters (EPHD) helps in generating increased demand for primary care services after an initial surge that devastates the local health system. There is still a wide gap in the literature that would help the medical workforce in examining an impact of disaster on long-term health care for medically vulnerable populations such as elderly people. It is extremely important for a country to have professionally designed emergency management plan that would be used in catastrophes or disasters related to health or security in order to ensure resiliency. There are various kinds of susceptible populations that are often exposed to health disasters. Environmental public health disasters are noxious exposure events that cause the illness or injury of more than 100 persons.

Disasters create secondary surges such as increase in demand of medical services that can harm the local medical infrastructure. Surging demands for medical care in the months just after an environmental public health disasters places surplus strain on a healthcare system of the country, which would be operating at its maximum capacity and it can lead to inequities in admittance to care. Subjective evidence recommends that the increased demands of the healthcare services after a disaster can cause difficulties in accessing primary care for the poor or medically underserved and it can pose greater long-term health risks for these sub-populations.

Local medical service providers within and proximity to the disaster population are likely to become stressed out due to the increase in medical demands of the new patients with specialized needs in which they are not having any expertise beside managing the existing work load. Consequent accidental oversight of cases not related to the disaster can rise into a separate but evenly demanding public health emergency.

Effective disaster management technologies and systems should be employed in the state or country to ensure any upcoming natural disaster and effective health research management departments should be established for managing the health care activities in the state and country level. These activities will help the state or country in developing competencies, which can be used in managing the causalities of post disaster that are un-controllable.

Discussion

Objectives of This Strategic Plan:

This strategic plan will help in understanding the health care needs and wants of medically vulnerable populations with post disaster.

To develop and identify strategies that would be used in post disaster events for managing and demonstrating long term primary care needs of the medically susceptible populations.

To have proactive thinking approach in managing the vulnerable population that would be suffering severe health complications or diseases such as cancer, aids etc.

To identify and provide treatment to susceptible Populations, which require long term primary care to make their lives stable.

This plan will address the conventionally unnoticed inequities in access to effective and timely healthcare services between medically vulnerable populations following an EPHD. Due to reduced performance of healthcare system the ...