Information for Professionals

General Information

• Preparedness Resources for Healthcare Facilities
  These resources are intended for individuals at healthcare facilities tasked with ensuring that their facility is as prepared as possible for an emergency. From the CDC.

 

• Texas Homeland Security Preparedness
  This web site works to implement some of the objectives of the Texas Homeland Security Strategic Plan by assisting jurisdictions to transition from basic to intermediate and advanced levels of training and exercises.

 

• Communicable Disease Control Measures in Texas: A Guide for Health Authorities in a Public Health Emergency
  Common Questions and Answers On the Imposition of Control Measures; Control Measures for Individuals; Control Measures for Property; Control Measures for Area; Control Measures for Common Carriers; and Statutory Appendix. From DSHS.

 

• Center for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response
  Resources and policies, including resources related to Basic and Advanced Disaster Life Support (BDLS/ADLS) Courses. From the American Medical Association.

 

• Texas Division of Emergency Management

Women and Pregnant and Parenting Women

• Caring for pregnant women during a disaster
  From the Centers for Disease Control 
  
  
• Sexual and reproductive health in emergency situations
  From the World Health Organization
  
  
• Resources for children during a disaster
  From The American Academy of Pediatrics

Child and Adolescent

• Mental Health Response to Mass Violence and Terrorism
  From the Substance Abuse and Mental Heath Services Administration 
  
  
• Pediatric Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness
  Resources for disaster planners from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

 

• The pediatrician and disaster preparedness
  From the American Academy of Pediatrics

 

• Disaster preparedness to meet children's needs
  Information for physicians from the American Academy of Pediatrics

Note: External links to other sites are intended to be informational and do not have the endorsement of the Texas Department of State Health Services. These sites may also not be accessible to people with disabilities.