Engaging Stakeholders at Every Opportunity: The Experience of the Emergency Law Inventory

Documét, Patricia I.; McDonough, Brianna L.; Nostrand, Elizabeth Van

doi:10.2105/ajph.2018.304615

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“…First, we queried the Emergency Law Inventory (ELI] -a publicly available informatics tool developed by the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health in 2017. 14 An updated version of ELI will be launched in 2024. Using ELI, we selected laws pertaining to all personnel roles to capture the most significant number of responses possible in each of our study states.…”

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“…We limited our study to state-level laws enacted as of December 1, 2023. First, we queried the Emergency Law Inventory (ELI] – a publicly available informatics tool developed by the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health in 2017 14. An updated version of ELI will be launched in 2024.…”

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“…Scope of practice defines the extent of activities a health care professional is legally permitted to accomplish. 6,14 Although states enact most disaster response laws, federal and local laws can also impact disaster response activities. The United States government is based on federalism in which the federal, state, and local governments (ie, counties, cities, and other political subdivisions) can all enact laws.…”

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“…Licensure is the ability of licensed professionals to serve in an emergency volunteer capacity without additional credentialing. Scope of practice defines the extent of activities a health care professional is legally permitted to accomplish 6,14…”

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Comparison of Laws that Impact Volunteer Response in Three Disaster-Prone Southeastern States

Malmin,

Nostrand

2024

Journal of Public Health Management &Amp; Practice

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Objective: As natural disasters become more frequent and severe, the ability of impacted states to rapidly scale up their capacity to respond and facilitate recovery through volunteers is ever more crucial. However, the legal landscape that may facilitate or hamper augmentation through volunteers has yet to be fully explored. Design: This study utilized policy surveillance methodology to code relevant laws identified in searches using the Emergency Law Inventory database and Westlaw. Setting: We assessed laws in three natural disaster-prone states: North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Main Outcome Measures: We assessed the presence of liability protection, license reciprocity, and scope of practice laws for health care volunteers. Results: Of the three assessed legal domains, liability protection for health care volunteers across all states contained the most robust language. Liability protections apply unless the health care volunteers act with reckless disregard, willful misconduct, or gross negligence. However, nuance exists based on which organizations (state vs charitable) volunteers are affiliated with to qualify for coverage. License reciprocity for out-of-state specific health care professions entering the impacted states was available across all three states. However, only Georgia enacted federal model legislation that provides additional flexibility regarding credentialing and liability protections. Lastly, very few laws addressed the scope of practice in impacted states. Conclusions: Comparisons of laws that impact the ability of health care volunteers to respond and recover from disasters are scarce. More research needs to be performed to better understand the laws that impact volunteers in emergencies, particularly as the public health system is overtasked when providing services to impacted communities.

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“…It allows for consideration of preferences of multiple decision-makers, which is beneficial because it creates a platform for collaboration between different stakeholders that do not always share political or social initiative. Engaging with stakeholders is important to ensure that disaster planning considers the needs of all affected and relevant parties, including members of vulnerable populations, experts, and governments [5,16,62]. Through the WLC method, criteria are weighted by pairwise comparison.…”

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A Decision Process for Optimizing Multi-Hazard Shelter Location Using Global Data

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Mitigating the effects of natural hazards through infrastructure planning requires integration of diverse types of information from a range of fields, including engineering, geography, social science, and geology. Challenges in data availability and previously siloed data have hindered the ability to obtain the information necessary to support decision making for disaster risk management. This is particularly challenging for areas susceptible to multiple types of natural hazards, especially in low-income communities that lack the resources for data collection. The data revolution is altering this landscape, due to the increased availability of remotely sensed data and global data repositories. This work seeks to leverage these advancements to develop a framework using open global datasets for identifying optimal locations for disaster relief shelters. The goal of this study is to empower low-income regions and make resilience more equitable by providing a multi-hazard shelter planning framework that is accessible to all decision-makers. The tool described integrates spatial multi-criteria decision analysis methods with a network analysis procedure to inform decisions regarding disaster shelter planning and siting.

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Quality of health care and patient safety in extreme adversity settings in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a qualitative multicountry assessment

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East Mediterr Health J.

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Background: Quality and patient safety are essential for the provision of effective health care services. Research on these aspects is lacking in settings of extreme adversity. Aims: This study aimed to explore the perception of health care stakeholders working in extreme adversity settings of the quality of health care and patient safety. Methods: This was a qualitative study conducted through semistructured interviews with 26 health care stakeholders from seven countries of the World Health Organization’s Eastern Mediterranean Region which are experiencing emergencies. The interviews explored the respondents’ perspectives of four aspects of quality and patient safety: definition of the quality of health care, challenges to the provision of good quality health care in emergency settings, priority health services and populations in emergency settings, and interventions to improve health care quality and patient safety. Results: The participants emphasized that saving lives was the main priority in extreme adversity settings. While all people living in emergency situations were vulnerable and at risk, the respondents considered women and children, poor and disabled people, and those living in hard-to-reach areas the priority populations to be targeted by improvement interventions. The challenges to quality of health care were: financing problems, service inaccessibility, insecurity of health workers, break down in health systems, and inadequate infrastructure. Respondents proposed interventions to improve quality, however, their effective implementation remains challenging in these exceptional settings. Conclusions: The interventions identified can serve as a basis for improvements in health care quality that could be adapted to extreme adversity settings.

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Engaging Stakeholders at Every Opportunity: The Experience of the Emergency Law Inventory

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Comparison of Laws that Impact Volunteer Response in Three Disaster-Prone Southeastern States

Comparison of Laws that Impact Volunteer Response in Three Disaster-Prone Southeastern States

A Decision Process for Optimizing Multi-Hazard Shelter Location Using Global Data

Quality of health care and patient safety in extreme adversity settings in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: a qualitative multicountry assessment

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