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  • Household Preparedness and Perceptions of Workforce Preparedness During Pandemics: A Health Care Employee Survey at the US Department of Veterans Affairs

  • Claudia Der-Martirosian, Michelle D. Balut, Aram Dobalian
  • Journal:
    Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness / Volume 16 / Issue 5 / October 2022
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 August 2021, pp. 1953-1958
  • Objective:

    To examine the effects of household preparedness on perceptions of workplace preparedness during a pandemic among all employees at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical facilities.

    Methods:

    The VA Preparedness Survey (October–December 2018, Los Angeles, CA) used a stratified simple random, web-based survey. Multivariate statistical analyses examined the effect of household preparedness on perceptions of workforce preparedness during a pandemic: institutional readiness; desire for additional training; and understanding their role and its importance.

    Results:

    VA employees totaling 4026 participated. For a pandemic, 55% were confident in their VA medical facility’s ability to respond, 63% would like additional training, 49% understood their role during a response, and 68% reported their role as important. Only 23% reported being “well prepared” at home during major disasters. After controlling for study-relevant factors, household preparedness was positively associated with perceptions of workforce preparedness during a pandemic.

    Conclusions:

    Efforts to increase household preparedness for health care employees could bolster workforce preparedness during pandemics. Organizations should consider robust policies and strategies, such as flexible work arrangements, in order to mitigate factors that may serve as barriers to household preparedness.

  • 6 - Emerging Infectious Diseases: Concepts in Preparing for and Responding to the Next Microbial Threat

  • from PART I - CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
  • Edited by Kristi L. Koenig, University of California, Irvine, Carl H. Schultz, University of California, Irvine
  • Book:
    Koenig and Schultz's Disaster Medicine
    Published online:
    05 August 2011
    Print publication:
    30 September 2009, pp 75-102

  • Summary

    Factors such as increased global commerce and travel, and the threat of the intentional release of pathogens have set the stage for infectious disease disasters with large numbers of casualties. This chapter addresses the concepts and tools necessary to prepare better for and respond to infectious diseases disasters in general. Surveillance is an assessment tool for the general functioning of a public health system. Practice exercises and past disasters have demonstrated that the response and mitigation effort is improved by good working relationships between public health, public safety, and healthcare workers. Many aspects of successful management of an infectious disease disaster are dependent on timely and accurate communications between different stakeholders. The multidisciplinary focus of effort toward the fields of infectious diseases biology and epidemiology is a nascent application that holds promise for the future of both infectious diseases and disaster medicine.