Describe the plan for contact tracing during the disaster and recovery phase. Develop a slide presentation of your disaster recovery plan with an audio recording of you presenting your assessment of the Vila Health: Disaster Recovery Scenario for city officials and the disaster relief team. Be sure to also include speaker notes.

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Instructions

Complete the following: and PLEASE READ ALL and remember that extensive speaker notes on all slides are essential.

Develop a disaster recovery plan for the Vila Health community that will lessen health disparities and improve access to services after a disaster. Refer back to the Vila Health: Disaster Recovery Scenario to understand the Vila Health community. NOTE: VH was unorganized in a disaster with no plan in place, no resources or communication and ran out of supplies. There was no order on who was seen first or not. Using MAP IT is crucial.

Assess community needs.

Consider resources, personnel, budget, and community makeup.

Identify the people accountable for implementation of the plan and describe their roles.

Focus on specific Healthy People 2020 goals.

Include a timeline for the recovery effort.

Apply the MAP-IT (Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, Track) framework to guide the development of your plan:

Mobilize collaborative partners.

Assess community needs.

Use the demographic data and specifics related to the disaster to identify the needs of the community and develop a recovery plan. Consider physical, emotional, cultural, and financial needs of the entire community.

Include in your plan the equitable allocation of services for the diverse community.

Apply the triage classification to provide a rationale for those who may have been injured during the train derailment. Provide support for your position.

Include in your plan contact tracing of the homeless, disabled, displaced community members, migrant workers, and those who have hearing impairment or English as a second language in the event of severe tornadoes.

Plan to lessen health disparities and improve access to services.

Implement a plan to reach Healthy People 2020 objectives.

Track and trace-map community progress.

Use the CDC’s Contract Tracing Resources for Health Departments as a template to create your contact tracing.

Describe the plan for contact tracing during the disaster and recovery phase.

Develop a slide presentation of your disaster recovery plan with an audio recording of you presenting your assessment of the Vila Health: Disaster Recovery Scenario for city officials and the disaster relief team. Be sure to also include speaker notes.

Your slide deck should consist of 10–12 content slides plus title and references slides. Use the speaker’s notes section of each slide to develop your talking points and cite your sources as appropriate.

Graded Requirements:

Describe the determinants of health and the cultural, social, and economic barriers that impact safety, health, and recovery efforts in the community.

Consider the interrelationships among these factors.

Explain how your proposed disaster recovery plan will lessen health disparities and improve access to community services.

Consider principles of social justice and cultural sensitivity with respect to ensuring health equity for individuals, families, and aggregates within the community.

Explain how health and governmental policy impact disaster recovery efforts.

Consider the implications for individuals, families, and aggregates within the community of legislation that includes, but is not limited to, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, and the Disaster Recovery Reform Act (DRRA).

Present specific, evidence-based strategies to overcome communication barriers and enhance interprofessional collaboration to improve the disaster recovery effort.

Consider how your proposed strategies will affect members of the disaster relief team, individuals, families, and aggregates within the community.

Include evidence to support your strategies.

Organize content with clear purpose/goals and with relevant and evidence-based sources (published within 5 years).