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A useful resource for health professionals interested in the health effects of exposure to specific chemicals and hazardous substances.

Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención del Cáncer y su Programa de Control proporcionan información sobre el cáncer con información actualizada para los proveedores y sus pacientes. Esté centro provee material didáctico, artículos de investigación, directrices y enlaces.

Link to HRSA's Emergency Response website with comprehensive emergency preparedness information including 15 all-hazards planning scenarios (the National Planning Scenarios or Scenarios)for use in national, Federal, State, and local homeland security preparedness activities. The Scenarios are planning tools and are representative of the range of potential terrorist attacks and natural disasters and the related impacts that face our nation.

Link to APHA's Get Ready Campaign website with comprehensive information regarding potential influenza pandemic including several useful full-color brochures/handouts and other free materials.

Use these free materials from APHA to help Americans prepare themselves, their families and their communities for all public health hazards they may face, including disasters, pandemic flu or other emerging infectious diseases. Share them with those you care about, or pass them out in your community!

Link to the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services website with comprehensive information on emergency preparedness, repsonse, recovery, training, etc.

Homeland security website that provides comprehensive information on emergency preparedness as well as a variety of emergency preparedeness tools available for download.

Link is for Spanish language version of website.

Are You Ready? An In-depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness (IS-22) is FEMA’s most comprehensive source on individual, family, and community preparedness.

 Are You Ready? provides a step-by-step approach to disaster preparedness by walking the reader through how to get informed about local emergency plans, how to identify hazards that affect their local area, and how to develop and maintain an emergency communications plan and disaster supplies kit. Other topics covered include evacuation, emergency public shelters, animals in disaster, and information specific to people with disabilities.

Are You Ready? also provides in-depth information on specific hazards including what to do before, during, and after each hazard type.

 

This Policy Information Notice (PIN) provides guidance to health centers on emergency management expectations related to planning and preparing for future emergencies.

Instructions for developing SAC Health Care and Business Plans with a sample format for the Health Care and Business Plans also provided.