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How does visualizing allows us to set the parameters to make the future vision a reality?

This film does not show the perspective of the government in all of this at all. 

The authors are Emily Goldmann and Sandro Galea. Emily Goldmann is a PhD, MPH, and assistant research professor of global public health at the College of Global Public Health at NYU. Her work focuses on social and environmental determinants of mental health consequences of health events such as strokes. She has an interest in epidemiology and she studied economics and Mandarin as an undergraduate at Columbia University and got her Masters and PhD in epidemiology from University of Michigan.

Sandor Galea is an MD, MPH and DrPHD. He is the Dean at Boston University School of Public Health. He has worked at the University of Michigan and New York Academy of Medicine. His works centers around the social production of health of urban populations and he focuses on the causes of brain disorders. Both very public health oriented. 

They talk a lot about triaging patients, which is a vital part of working in an ER.They don't give many legitimate information abotu fixing the current problems in waiting rooms, but they do suggest havig more staff and beds to give patients somewhere to be and someone to help them.

OSHA issues workplace health and safety regulations. These regulations include limits on hazardous chemical exposure, employee access to hazard information, requirements for the use of personal protective equipment, and requirements to prevent falls and hazards from operating dangerous equipment.

For example, OSHA released information regarding Zika and how employers can guarantee safety and protection for their workers. They also provide standards for PPE and decontamination as well as safety. They've released many standards and protocols discussing this. 

Looking at the citations at the end of each page, it is clear that the research done for this article was both extensive and thorough. There are numerous different forms of citations and resources, varying from news articles to studies and reports. There is also a very wide date range showing an effort to understand and present data and information on the topic both pre and post disaster as well as show updated findings and information as it became discovered. 

These following quotes best exemplify the message of the article: 

" A nuclear emergency response group can no doubt benefit form improving the community resilience and emergency preparedness but this group will unavoidably carry an elite character." (p 196)

"The international community has come to acknowledge the magnitude of risk and responsibly involved in developing and safely operating nuclear facilities." (P. 199)

"To move forward with maximum efficient, an international nuclear response group needs to operationalize relevant experience form international disaster relief organizations." (p 201)

This policy applies to any persons who are considered refugees. Because this was after the Second World War, it was at first limited to people fleeing within Europe. Since then, its scope has widened and applies to people fleeing persecution and can be used today with respect to the current refugee problem. 

Requirements to apply are a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent and demonstrable evidence of promise in the field of narrative medicine according to the admissions website. Ultimately, those looking to enter the medical field in any capacity are the main targeted demographic for this program. The goal is to instill into doctors, nurses, PAs, social workers, etc, the idea of incorporating narrative medicine into their clinical work. Those predisposed to healthcare fields are likely optimal candidates for this program. 

"The distribution and outcome of chronic infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, are so tightly linked to social arrangements that it is difficult for clinicians treating these diseases to ignore social factors. Although AIDS is often considered a “social disease,” clinicians may have radically different understandings of what makes AIDS “social.”  

"The impact of structural violence is even more obvious in the world's poorest countries and has profound implications for those seeking to provide clinical services there.  "

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"We can begin to address this by “resocializing” our understanding of disease distribution and outcome. Even new diseases such as AIDS have quickly become diseases of the poor, and the development of effective therapies may have a perverse effect if we are unable to use them where they are needed most.  "