Disaster Planning: A Practical Guide for Effective Health Outcomes
- ISBN-10
- 1009001965
- ISBN-13
- 9781009001960
- Category
- Disaster medicine
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021
- Author
- Mark Keim
Description
"Planning (the process of creating plans) is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior. All humans engage in planning. It involves the process of "deciding what to do and how to do it." The basic principle of planning is that individual and short-term decisions are coordinated to support strategic, long-term objectives. Plans provide the level of detail necessary for the accomplishment of a goal. The planning process usually begins with the most general concepts and leads to increasingly specific plans and tasks, resulting in integration between the parts"--
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