Ambulance workers are increasingly being verbally abused and physically attacked. Two paramedicine researchers explain how we can better protect them.
- Associate Professor, Paramedicine and Head of Department, Rural Allied Health, La Trobe University
When a pet dies, your world can unravel as you lose your best friend and anchor in a shifting world.
Being a sole survivor of a mass casualty may have its own complex psychological challenges.
Many volunteer first responders will have loved ones also affected by the Mid North Coast floods in NSW.
This is a particularly tough time for people who have lived through other disasters. Here are some signs of retraumatisation to watch out for.
A significant proportion of volunteer firefighters report devastating post traumatic stress and thoughts of suicide. We need to support them better.
There’s evidence that people who have been through multiple disasters experience poorer mental and physical health compared to people who have been exposed to a single disaster.
More 9/11 responders died from physical and mental health issues after the terrorist attacks than on the day itself. And survivors are still suffering 20 years later.
Perth and surrounds will spend the next five days in lockdown, as authorities scramble to prevent a single case – a quarantine hotel security worker – from escalating into a full-blown COVID cluster.
Banyak virus telah menghilang, tapi ilmuwan menduga bahwa COVID akan tetap bersama kita untuk waktu yang lama.
Lots of viruses have disappeared before. But experts think COVID will stay with us for a long time to come.
The traffic light alert system, first proposed in response to the 2003 Beijing SARS outbreak, is already being used around the world to classify travel and inform restrictions in classrooms.
Even though cases haven’t dropped off yet, mandatory masks have probably helped to prevent cases continuing to spiral upwards - which is a real risk with this virus.
For anyone struggling with survivor guilt, it’s important to remember this pandemic is not your fault. You did not do anything wrong.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is arguably the world’s best-placed agency to fight COVID-19. But it’s been cut out of the loop, and pandemic data will now go straight to the White House.
Most of us are familiar with the concept of psychological trauma. But what is collective trauma, and how can we tackle it in the wake of the bushfire crisis?
Emergency service workers already have poorer mental health than the rest of us. In the wake of this bushfire crisis, we need to make the well-being of our first responders a top priority.
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