Disaster Health > FEMA blog on Disasters and Public Health (5min read)

[Very good article to end National Public Health week.  Dr. Lurie describes the need for public and private health care facilities to come to the table and plan for coordinating disaster health response needs, and to make it an everyday practice.  She also touches on the need for individual citizen's to step up to the plate and become more responsible for themselves, in a very 'soft manner'.]

Galveston Island, TX, September 18, 2008 --
Members of the Iowa-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team help to move a patient along with flight nurses and medics who will be transporting patients to hospitals that are operating outside of the area impacted by Hurricane Ike

Article webpage :  http://blog.fema.gov/2011/04/guest-post-disasters-and-public-health.html