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Need help with creating a Key Assignment Outline The outline should focus on Health Organization Disaster Planning and Response Strategy that links federal, state, and local agency authorities and reflects the potential ethical decision-making that a health care leader may be confronted with. Include ethical theories and principles that support the infrastructure of the strategy.

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Key Assignment Outline

Introduction
Disaster Management in Health Care Organisation:

Concept

Disaster preparedness or Management:
Disaster can be defined as any activity which leads to destruction, damage and loss.
Disaster planning and response strategy is thus an initiative started by the organizations in order to handle any such situation that may arise and to keep all the facities available to control the consequences and ensure minimum loss.

Thus in health Care organisations, Such as Hospitals, clinics , dispensaries , etc , the disaster planning and response strategy is a proactive approach by health organisations to ensure efficient management of resources , protection to lives , minimum possible losses, and availability of effective facities in case of any destructive activity takes place.
This is ensured through making available the efficient staff, physicians and doctors to attend the inflicted patients, to coordinate the activities so that no patient remains unattended , keeping rescue teams at place , and various operational tools, equipments etc.

Response strategy:
It is a strategy that is implemented after the disaster takes place in order to assure a normal healthy life through controlling the repercussions of such disaster.
The various types of threats faced by people after a disaster has occurredike diseases, epidemics, etc is addressed by a response strategy to ensure healthy survival.

Health Organization Disaster Planning and Response Strategy

In case disasters take place there are much chances of outbreaks, infections, diseases. And the resources will also be affected by harmful contamination, consequences of climatic changes and hazards making life difficult for people.
Disaster can be anything , a flood, a storm or an attack.

In order to combat these threats , and challenges , health care organisations have been encouraged to initiate a proactive response and to make available emergency facilities in order to mitigate the risks , and ensure rapid recovery through efficient response strategy

integration of federal, state and lical govt:
Disaster planning and preparedness in health care organisations integrates the activities and role of federal, state and local government in ensuring all the facilities are available at appropriate time to people in health organisations for which each federal, state and local government have taken various dreastic steps and contributed in resource and funds availability. The governments aim at combining and coordinating the individual efforts for producing desired outcome by focusing on the area , affected by disasters.

Role of Federal Government:
Federal Government ensures to identify the areas whichvate more prone to disastets or have symptoms of being one , federal govt thus evaluates these disaster prone areas and makes sure they do not lack infrastructure, rescue facilities and resource availability to prevent major losses of lives and property
Federal Govt undertakes the following declarations :
Emergency :
It determines the emergency in advance through its deep evaluation process and loacates how much attention it will require.
It coordinates and prepares local and state government for the same by keeping funds available to distribute to local and state govt.
This prevents crises and long term consequences.

Assistances to Individuals:
For each individual affected in some way due to the disaster, it formulates various programs or policies to assist them after the disaster has created vulnerable effects on individual or property. E.g free medical services , dicounted medicines , extra stay at hospitals etc
Thus integrates with stae govt to attend to the individuals and implement the policies successfully.

Role of state:
The state largely acts as a bridge between the federal and local govt by implementing and losing down the policies laid by federal to be successfully applied at local levels.
It transfers funds as per the needs, compensates the doctors for their extra care facilities during disasters and imports medicines and drugs if necessary .
Therefore state acts as a intermediary to inregrate the activities of all the three governmental sectors.

Role of Local Govt:
The local government aims at utilizing the resources being supplied by the federal funds efficiently to attend each area. As the local government has all the necessary data already available about the population, infrastructure , climatic conditions, environmental changes etc , therefore federal govt entrusts the local to attend the disastrous area and ensure maxi.um relief.
The role in health care organisations involves:.
To keep the maximum dispensaries avialable for attending the patients
To keep emergency services like ambulances etc all ready to provide services
To ensure enough medicines, vaccines, drugs are available
To provide special care to elderly and kids.
To ensure avialibity of tools, equipments, machines etc to detect diseases and provide efficient cure
To focus on preventive measures more than the curative one as prevention is better than cure.

And nevertheless the roles , duties and responsibilities played by the federal , state and local government vary , all these activities all coordinated together in a manner to produce best results in terms of making the public health organizations efficient to help preparing, facing, combating and controlling the disaster and its ill effects.

Contribution of Ethical theories :
Disaster creates various complexities and challenges for people. It puts a huge impact on health of people and results in huge losses.
Therefore lack of medical facilities, helath care clinics, doctors , medicines , vaccines etc will result in increase in deakth tolls, spread of diseases, unattended patients , weak children , etc.
These situations might result in producing various ethical issues and moral challenges .

Health care providers might face certian situation where they have to choose between alternatives inevitably resulting in harm of other creating an ethical delimma and cognitive dissonance.

Therefore such situations may be dealt with the care, consideration and the final decisions must be taken on the basis of various ethical theories amd moral values. Sime of the theories which might form the basis of decision could be:

Principles of ethics

Principle of beneficence:
Where maximum good is to be preferred over minimum possible harm.

Principle of utilitarian ethics
Where the duty and responsibility given to a medical provider should be considered as priority

Principle of Humanity:
Where maximum benefit and good of patient is the basic objective of a doctor. His interests are taken as main focus.

Principle of Complete Information
Where a medical provider has the duty to reveal all the information about the health condition of a patient and inform him or her about the consequences of such condition

Respect and Dignity:
The patients no matter belonging to what social class are to be treated with respect and dignity. Their sentiments and feelings should not go broke.

Principle of Equal Care:
Where all the patients are to be treated equally without any partiality on the basis of creed, religion , non citizen , ethnicity, gender etc
Health care should be equal for all.

Principles Related to Infrastructure:

Necessary Evacuation of people irrespective of their age or value.

Providing vaccines to each age group

Stay at hospitals as long as the patient is fully recovered

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