The WHO, a well respected organization, pushed for a similar framework of 'public health security'.
Legislation in the United States that supported a global model of health care in order to address pandemics and other hazards.
Growing issues with pathogenicity and mutability in diseases that makes it harder to deal with retroactively instead of proactively.
The number of emergency workers lost during 9/11:
343 Fire Fighters - http://nyfd.com/9_11_wtc.html
60 Police Officers
8 EMTs and Paramedics - http://www.world-memorial.org/Tribute/EMS/medics.html
EMS Lesson's Learned from 9/11
http://www.jems.com/articles/2006/08/lessons-learned-911.html
Changes were made to the mutual aid system. Resources that had, in the event, run out or were needed sooner than they were used are now better stocked and available. Some new trainings were implemented.
More stories from 9/11 by EMS
http://www.nyc.gov/html/fdny/pdf/mck_report/ems_response.pdf
-Due to recent terror attacks, there has been an insurgence in French xenophobia. Has this changed these policies? What is the current public opinion on the treatment of undocumented foreigner with illness?
-How do other countries manage ill undocumented foreigners? What is the international consensus in first world countries?
-What is the cut-off for illness in the cases discussed?
The event of a disaster as well as the confusion and stress of the aftermath and long term recovery and socioeconomic factors lead to a specific mental health disorder referred to as Chronic Disaster Syndrom.
Substance abuse post-disaster
Comorbidity of mental disorders
Post-disaster social support systems
This article has been cited in such places as:
"Depression in Japan: Psychiatric cures for a society in distress" - Book
"Societal and ethical issues in human biomonitoring–a view from science studies"
"Informality and survival in Ukraine's nuclear landscape: living with the risks of Chernobyl"
Sonja uses sociocultural studies of risk, organiaation theory, and disaster sociology. of which she cites 8 papers.
One of the ones I could find: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=XaN-VkDFSWgC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&…
About Bhopal and what we can learn from disaster reponse.
This book, “Medicine, Rationality and Experience” is an incredibly influential and widely-discussed and cited book.
There is no evidence that corpses cause or spread disease following a natural disaster. There would have to be more direct circumstances for potential damage from corpses.
The risk associated with epidemics is correlated to the population displaced and affected by infrastructure.
The most commun post-natural disaster diseases are related to water contamination and crowding. While corpses could potential contaminate water, because the population is displaced the corpses likely won't contaminate the new water source, but the overcrowded displaced population will. Some of such disease include Hepatitis A and E, Leptospirosis, and measles. Meninginitis and Acute Respiratory Infections can also develop if vaccinations are not prevelant there.