Biopreparedness and Public Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biopreparedness and Public Health write by Iris Hunger. This book was released on 2012-10-20. Biopreparedness and Public Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The terrorist use of diseases as bioweapons has been one of the major security concerns in recent years, particularly after the anthrax letter attacks in the USA in 2001. This uncertain threat of intentional outbreaks of diseases exists side by side with the constantly changing very real threat from diseases, epidemics and pandemics as recently illustrated by the H1N1 influenza pandemic, SARS, and H5N1 bird influenza events. This publication contains case studies on the public health planning for (un)usual disease outbreaks for 11 large and small countries with a focus on South Eastern Europe. In many countries, military entities traditionally play an important role in emergency response to disease outbreaks. In smaller countries, very little exists, however, in terms of specific biopreparedness efforts (in both the military and civilian area), which is at least partly due to a relatively low bioterrorism threat perception, and serious resource constraints. The uncertainty associated with the bioterrorism threat makes public health preparedness planning for such events politically and financially very difficult. The similarity of responding to bioterrorism events and natural disease outbreaks from a public health point of view suggests the merit of looking at biopreparedness as a part of overall health emergency planning, not as a separate effort.
The State of U.S. Public Health Biopreparedness
The State of U.S. Public Health Biopreparedness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The State of U.S. Public Health Biopreparedness write by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. This book was released on 2019. The State of U.S. Public Health Biopreparedness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Preparedness Resources and Programs
The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Preparedness Resources and Programs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Preparedness Resources and Programs write by Institute of Medicine. This book was released on 2014. The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Preparedness Resources and Programs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many of the elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect in 2014, and with the establishment of many new rules and regulations, there will continue to be significant changes to the United States health care system. It is not clear what impact these changes will have on medical and public health preparedness programs around the country. Although there has been tremendous progress since 2005 and Hurricane Katrina, there is still a long way to go to ensure the health security of the Country. There is a commonly held notion that preparedness is separate and distinct from everyday operations, and that it only affects emergency departments. But time and time again, catastrophic events challenge the entire health care system, from acute care and emergency medical services down to the public health and community clinic level, and the lack of preparedness of one part of the system places preventable stress on other components. The implementation of the ACA provides the opportunity to consider how to incorporate preparedness into all aspects of the health care system. The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Preparedness Resources and Programs is the summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events in November 2013 to discuss how changes to the health system as a result of the ACA might impact medical and public health preparedness programs across the nation. This report discusses challenges and benefits of the Affordable Care Act to disaster preparedness and response efforts around the country and considers how changes to payment and reimbursement models will present opportunities and challenges to strengthen disaster preparedness and response capacities.
Public Health Impact Assessment
Public Health Impact Assessment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Health Impact Assessment write by Julia R. Appt. This book was released on 2010. Public Health Impact Assessment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Humans have long suffered the effects of disease causing biological agents. Today bioterrorism appears to be on the rise while at the same time global and ecological changes have resulted in the emergence of new diseases. Potential repercussions of an epidemic pose immense challenges requiring a methodical approach to align priorities and resources. Past assessments evaluating the potential impact of an introduction of various biological agents have often produced disparate results, primarily due to underlying differences in their comparison methodologies and data inputs. Divergent outcomes of these studies have resulted in very broad biopreparedness strategies without a consensus on how to target limited resources on just those agents that could have the greatest public health impact. Further hampering biopreparedness is a paucity of data not often recognized due to reliance on subject matter experts and qualitative processes. In consideration of these challenges the present study evaluated thirty three bacterial and viral agents using the full range of available data in the scientific literature. Quantitative metrics were combined to rank the potential impact posed by an agent, relative to others considered. Resultant rankings were obtained for low, most likely and high potential public health impacts for both untreated and treated mortality endpoints. Through the incorporation of the full range of available data, results of the current assessment made strides to unify conflicting outcomes obtained in past assessments.
The New Public Health
The New Public Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Public Health write by Theodore H. Tulchinsky. This book was released on 2008-10-13. The New Public Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New Public Health has established itself as a solid textbook throughout the world. Translated into 7 languages, The New Public Health distinguishes itself from other public health textbooks, which are either highly locally oriented or, if international, lack the specificity of local issues relevant to students’ understanding of applied public health in their own setting. Following the gold standard of knowledge set by the Council for Education in Public Health, the new edition includes: 40% new material, including all new tables, figures, data, and chapter bibliographies Updates based on the 2005 accreditation criteria of the Council for Education in Public Health (CEPH), as will feedback received from an extensive survey of professors using NPH1 Multiple case studies, chapter-ending bibliographies, and recommended readings The second edition of The New Public Health provides a unified approach to public health appropriate for all masters’ level students and practitioners – specifically for courses in MPH programs, community health and preventive medicine programs, community health education programs, community health nursing programs, as well as programs for other medical professionals such as pharmacy, physiotherapy, and other public health courses. Specific courses include: Fundamentals of Public Health, Introduction to Public Health Policy, Philosophy of Public Health, History of Public Health, Public Health and Healthcare Management, New Technologies and Public Health, Genetics and Biotechnologies, Bio-preparedness and others.
