Changing Needs of Consumers: Epidemiological Trends

Changing Needs of Consumers: Epidemiological Trends
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Changing Needs of Consumers: Epidemiological Trends
The effects of small nuclear weapons in the world can lead to an advance health crisis, which can limit the level of emergency response mechanism. In countries like the United States, the risk posed by such weapons has increased in the recent past. Additionally, the communities are ill-prepared in terms of health care response awareness and readiness (Miramonti et al., 2015). Therefore, the attention has shifted on the level of capability of public and medical health disaster reaction during the large-scale disaster. For instance, numerous constraints exist regarding resources required for the management of mass casualties such as availability of mass decontamination, pharmaceutical intervention, supportive and respiration therapy, and hospital beds (Dallas, 2008).
Some of the three critical issues in case of mass casualty event include expansion of the number of personnel involved in the response of nuclear attack emergency, launching of public awareness campaigns, and adaptations of medication stockpile assets for mass casualty care. Firstly, expansion of personnel capacity should be met through proper training of experts (Dallas, 2008). In so doing basic healthcare courses should be extended to emergency technicians and paramedics who will help to support nurses, physicians, veterinarians, dentists, and pharmacists during the events (Miramonti et al.

, 2015). Furthermore, these auxiliary healthcare workers may be integrated into an all-threat emergency care system.
Secondly, the introduction of media training intended for the public would offer significant chances to reach many potential security and healthcare providers for possible hiring into mass casualty support. Precisely, the approach would help increase the recruits from the population to join the disaster health care workforce (Dallas, 2008). Consequently, it would create supplementary crisis responders that can monitor and deliver recommendations during the mass casualty emergency. Thirdly, the stockpiles of drugs and community workers’ training would assist in the treatment of millions of fatalities from the nuclear attack. There is need to initiate a design for securing and housing a stockpile of medicines for utilization in such events (Miramonti et al., 2015).

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Dallas, C. E. (2008). Impact of small nuclear weapons on Washington, DC: outcomes and emergency response recommendations. Senate.
Miramonti, C. M., O’Donnell, D. P., Stevens, A. C., Weinstein, E., Mugele, J. D., Allgood, K. L., & Courtney, B. A. (2015). Mass casualty management. Emergency Medical Services: Clinical Practice and Systems Oversight, Second Edition, 292-302.