Public Health Emergencies Discuss a life-threatening event or a natural disaster in your community, such as a severe weather event, terrorist attack, or another type of public health emergency. Examine an overall strategy that medical providers, healthcare organizations, and public health agencies should include in the response plan that combines the efforts of all groups. […]
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What is President Bush’s task at hand? More generally, in times of crisis-what are the core framing tasks of a leader?
In the clip (2:02 minutes), President George W. Bush is addressing the construction workers and firefighters at Ground Zero only three days after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. In the middle of his remarks, someone from the crowd yelled that he can’t hear him. Notice Bush’s spontaneous framing of “the situation here and […]
