1.2 Health Promotion
(1) Participates in community education activities related to disaster preparedness.
(2) Assesses the community to determine pre-existing health issues, prevalence of disease, chronic illness and disability and the health care resources in the community.
(3) Partners with others to implement measures that will reduce risks related to person-to-person transmission of disease, sanitation and foodborne illness.
(4) Participates in planning to meet the health care needs of the community such as, mass immunization and medication
administration programmes.
(5) Works with the community to strengthen the health care system’s ability to respond to and recover from a disaster.