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Find Locations
Locate your nearest emergency shelters and inform neighbors know where to go during a disaster.
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Familiarize with the emergency plan
Ask your work supervisor for a copy of your workplace emergency plan and become familiar with it.
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Spread the word
Find your local flu immunization clinics schedules and spread the word to your friends and family.
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Take classes
Learn CPR or take a first aid class.
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Share the wealth
Pick up a few extra canned goods every time you go to the grocery store to donate to your community food bank.
A prepared community is a healthier community
An important part of creating a healthy community is assuring it is prepared to deal with a range of potential problems, whether for a natural disaster, disease outbreak or human-made emergency. Each year, National Public Health Week organizers urge Americans to focus on being more knowledgeable and better prepared.