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Discussion Leader Questions Week 15 Analysis of Media Agenda Setting During and After Hurricane Katrina: Implications for Emergency Preparedness, Disaster Response, and Disaster Policy 1. According to the article, what is Media agenda settings? Media agenda settings is the intentional exposure of issues or events with the goal of swaying public outlook and public policy. a. What is the goal of Media Agenda Setting? The goal of swaying public outlook and public policy. 2. How was the research conducted? Two trained coders conducted a content analysis of the newspaper articles. The primary researchers explained the purpose of the study and trained the coders by selecting sample newspaper articles and demonstrating how to code the content of each article. a. What 4 newspapers were mentioned in the article? i. Times Picayune ii. The Advocate iii. The Washington Post iv. The New York Times 3. What is the goal of public health disaster preparedness? a. The goal of public health disaster preparedness and response is for individuals and communities to take simple steps to ensure that they have a supply of food, water,
and medicine, a reliable first aid kit, and a plan to find loved ones if communication and transportation networks are disrupted. 4. List the subject categories each article was coded into? a. Preparation b. Mitigation c. Response d. Recovery— based on disaster management principles. 5. In your own words what was the findings of the study? Heavy Users of Emergency Services: Social Construction of a Policy Problem 1. What are heavy users? a. Responsible for a disproportionate number of ED visits and costs. b. Identified as a medically and socially vulnerable population. 2. Why are heavy users identified as “Problem”? a. Opens up wider social issues critical to consensus on healthcare reform. b. The problem is nestled within a complex of substantial, interdependent problems including access to care, lack of primary and preventive services, absent or inadequate social services, and fragmented service delivery. 3. How was the Emergency Medical Services funded? a. Created with funding and mandated standards from the Highway Safety Act of 1966 and the EMS Systems Act of 1973. 4. What are the three premises involved in the construction of social problems? a. (1) premises about the causal agents and mechanisms.
b. (2) premises about the level and units of analysis appropriate to studying the problem and targeting treatment. c. (3) premises about the preferred forms of intervention. 5. What is the “Good Samaritan Law”? a. Developed in most states to protect caregivers from lawsuits related to emergency aid situations they encounter as passersby. b. Do not extend into the ED itself, where providers are generally held to a higher expected standard of care. 6. What is patient Dumping? a. The practice of transferring medically indigent patients from private hospital EDs to those of public hospitals. 7. What happened as a part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act? a. Congress prohibited patient dumping and required all hospitals who receive Medicaid and Medicare funding to provide emergency care to all patients. Frequent Users of Emergency Departments: The Myths, the Data, and the Policy Implications 1. What does frequent users generally comprise of? a. Comprise 4.5% to 8% of all ED patients but account for 21% to 28% of all visits 2. What are the criteria used in the article to define “Frequent Use”? a. 1. Population/Setting: Studies of adult and pediatric patients presenting frequently to EDs in the United States were included.
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