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Assessing primary healthcare disaster preparedness: a study in Northern Italy.

Alessandro Lamberti-CastronuovoHamdi LamineMartina ValenteHubloue IvesFrancesco Barone-AdesiLuca Ragazzoni
Published in: Primary health care research & development (2024)
The checklist offers a practical instrument for assessing and enhancing PHC disaster preparedness and for improving planning, coordination, and funding allocation. The study identified three critical areas for improvement in the province's PHC disaster preparedness. First, primary care teams should be more interdisciplinary. Second, primary care services should be more thoroughly integrated into the broader health system. Third, there is a notable lack of awareness of H-EDRM principles among PHC professionals. In the future, the checklist can be elaborated into a weighted tool to be more broadly applicable.
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