Improving Competencies for Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness

Gebbie, Kristine M.; Hodge, James G.; Meier, Benjamin Mason; Barrett, Drue H.; Keith, Priscilla; Koo, Denise; Sweeney, Patricia M.; Winget, Patricia

doi:10.1111/j.1748-720x.2008.00261.x

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“…This would be facilitated by familiarity with professional ethics as well as rules and regulations. 18 In the face of the many challenges in a disaster situation, it is crucial to have clear guidelines for nurses to allow them to follow ethical principles. 19 In addition, post-incident debriefing and a review of nurses' experiences are recommended to reinforce their development in applying ethical principles to their practice successfully.…”

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Ethical and legal challenges associated with disaster nursing

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“…Such networks would be overseen by a scientific research incident commander to coordinate the work. Gebbie, et al (2008) proposed more collaboration between practitioners and academics to further understanding of public health legal competencies, as well as including the competencies in law enforcement and judicial training programs and creating communities of practice, both vertically and horizontally, to develop specific practices for specific communities and events. Gray (1996) found that one factor which frequently generates conflict within collaborative organizations is control over resources and, on the other hand, a number of scholars have cited resource availability as a key factor in collaboration success (Provan and Milward, 1995;Rainey andBusson, 2001, as cited in Kiefer andMontjoy, 2006).…”

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Policy Making to Build Relationships: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Interviews and Documents Relating to H1N1, Ebola, and the U.S. Public Health Preparedness Network

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2016

Journal of Health and Human Services Administration

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In the last five years, the American public health emergency preparedness and response system has been tested by two significant threats, H1N1 and Ebola. While neither proved as dangerous as initially feared, these viruses highlighted on-going issues with collaborations in the field of public health and health care. Strengths were identified within the network, but also challenges that must be resolved before the U.S. faces a major pandemic. Employing interview data from public health emergency response practitioners and documentary evidence from the H1N1 and Ebola responses, this qualitative analysis uses the grounded theory approach to identify key areas for collaborative improvement. The grounded theory developed calls for a stronger policy framework at the federal level to facilitate more collaboration between U.S. agencies and facilitate more collaboration at the state and local level.

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“…Perhaps the largest deficit in the existing research on the role of law in public health agency performance is its thin conception of legal capacity. There is a small literature that defines “legal competencies” (Center for Law and the Public's Health 2001; Gebbie et al 2008; Lichtveld et al 2002), but the field has not yet drawn on the theoretically richer sociolegal literature on the “legal consciousness” and the “legality” of individuals and organizations (Cooper 1995; Ewick and Silbey 1998; Silbey 2005; Stryker 2012). In this approach, law is not treated simply as a “tool” or “rule” that agents wield or obey but also as a set of individual beliefs and organizational norms regarding what the legal system is, how it actually works, and whether and why people should obey its commands.…”

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Moving from Intersection to Integration: Public Health Law Research and Public Health Systems and Services Research

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Context: For three decades, experts have been stressing the importance of law to the effective operation of public health systems. Most recently, in a 2011 report, the Institute of Medicine recommended a review of state and local public health laws to ensure appropriate authority for public health agencies; adequate access to legal counsel for public health agencies; evaluations of the health effects and costs associated with legislation, regulations, and policies; and enhancement of research methods to assess the strength of evidence regarding the health effects of public policies. These recommendations, and the continued interest in law as a determinant of health system performance, speak to the need for integrating the emerging fields of Public Health Law Research (PHLR) and Public Health Systems and Services Research (PHSSR). Methods: Expert commentary. Findings: This article sets out a unified framework for the two fields and a shared research agenda built around three broad inquiries: (1) the structural role of law in shaping the organization, powers, prerogatives, duties, and limitations of public health agencies and thereby their functioning and ultimately their impact on public health (“infrastructure”); (2) the mechanisms through which public health system characteristics influence the implementation of interventional public health laws (“implementation”); and (3) the individual and system characteristics that influence the ability of public health systems and their community partners to develop and secure enactment of legal initiatives to advance public health (“innovation”). Research to date has laid a foundation of evidence, but progress requires better and more accessible data, a new generation of researchers comfortable in both law and health research, and more rigorous methods. Conclusions: The routine integration of law as a salient factor in broader PHSSR studies of public health system functioning and health outcomes will enhance the usefulness of research in supporting practice and the long‐term improvement of system performance.

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Improving Competencies for Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

Ethical and legal challenges associated with disaster nursing

Ethical and legal challenges associated with disaster nursing

Policy Making to Build Relationships: A Grounded Theory Analysis of Interviews and Documents Relating to H1N1, Ebola, and the U.S. Public Health Preparedness Network

Moving from Intersection to Integration: Public Health Law Research and Public Health Systems and Services Research

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