{"id":15995,"date":"2020-09-21T17:54:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/?p=15995"},"modified":"2020-09-21T18:05:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T18:05:51","slug":"graphic-medicine-and-emergency-preparedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2020\/09\/21\/graphic-medicine-and-emergency-preparedness\/","title":{"rendered":"Graphic Medicine and Emergency Preparedness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-15996 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/09\/092020GMPrepImage-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Covers for AD: After the Deluge, Drowned City, Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic, Coping After a Disaster, A Fire Story, Ready Freddie, Survivor Tales.\" width=\"451\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/09\/092020GMPrepImage-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/09\/092020GMPrepImage-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/09\/092020GMPrepImage-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2020\/09\/092020GMPrepImage.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>September is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/september\">National Preparedness Month<\/a>! How can graphic medicine help with emergency preparedness, response and recovery?<\/p>\n<p><em>Graphic Medicine<\/em>\u00a0is comic books and graphic novels that cover topics of health and wellness.\u00a0 The visual format makes the information easier to understand and digest.\u00a0 By reading a personal, non-fiction story, we can learn about issues we may not have experienced ourselves.\u00a0 These stories can also help us feel less alone in our own lives.<\/p>\n<p>So how can graphic medicine help with emergency preparedness, response and recovery? Here are graphic medicine resources for getting started with graphic medicine and emergency preparedness, response and recovery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5993376\/\">Mental Rehearsal<\/a>-Comics about emergency preparedness, response and recovery can help people mentally practice what they would do in an emergency which can help overcome the initial feelings of being overwhelmed that can have people freezing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/depts\/health\/emergency-preparedness\/preparing-yourself\/comics.aspx\">Survivor Tales<\/a> from Seattle King County Public Health with real stories from people who survived earthquakes, hurricanes and more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/depts\/health\/emergency-preparedness\/preparing-yourself\/comics.aspx\">Ready Frieddie<\/a> from Seattle King County Public Health to help kids understand emergency preparedness.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cpr\/readywrigley\/books.htm\">Ready Wrigley Activity books<\/a> from the CDC for younger kids.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/cpr\/zombie\/novel.htm\">Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic<\/a> from the CDC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dealing with trauma-Seeing other people\u2019s responses to emergency and disaster related trauma can help people feel less alone and build empathy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Fire Story by Briand Fies available <a href=\"http:\/\/brianfies.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/a-fire-story-complete.html\">online<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abramsbooks.com\/product\/fire-story_9781419735851\/\">in print<\/a> with additional material<\/li>\n<li>Brian Fies discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TwJW2nyn9xI\">creating A Fire Story as part of his keynote for NEGM20<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Comics can help people understand social and political issues that affect personal and community emergency preparedness, response and recovery.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmhbooks.com\/shop\/books\/Drowned-City\/9780544586178\">Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina &amp; New Orleans<\/a> by Don Brown<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/120869\/ad-by-josh-neufeld\/\">AD: After the Deluge<\/a> by Josh Neufeld<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingcounty.gov\/depts\/health\/emergency-preparedness\/preparing-yourself\/pandemic-flu\/comic.aspx\">No Ordinary Flu<\/a> from Seattle King County Public Health about the 1918 Flu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn more about emergency preparedness, response and recovery with resources from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/\">Ready.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/plan\">Personal and family preparedness<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/plan-for-locations\">Community preparedness<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Continuity of operations planning (COOP) for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ready.gov\/business\">businesses<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/dis_courses\/coop\/index.html\">libraries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To learn more about Graphic Medicine visit the NLM\u2019s website for the traveling exhibit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/exhibition\/graphicmedicine\/\"><em>Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived, Well-Drawn<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Or request information about the <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/ner\/graphic-medicine-book-club-kits\">Graphic Medicine Book Club Kits<\/a> (due to COVID, kits are not currently ciruclating), including the Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery kit that uses Drowned City by Don Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September is National Preparedness Month! How can graphic medicine help with emergency preparedness, response and recovery? Graphic Medicine\u00a0is comic books and graphic novels that cover topics of health and wellness.\u00a0 The visual format makes the information easier to understand and digest.\u00a0 By reading a personal, non-fiction story, we can learn about issues we may not&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2020\/09\/21\/graphic-medicine-and-emergency-preparedness\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[84,265],"class_list":["post-15995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-medicine","tag-emergency-preparedness-epp","tag-graphic-medicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15995"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16003,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15995\/revisions\/16003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}