2012-05-10T18:07:21Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/d/dausey_david_j.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR239.html 2005-03-01T13:29:00Z 2005-03-01T13:29:00Z

Briefly describes the methods and criteria used to select exemplary practices in public health preparedness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR319.html 2006-05-17T17:03:00Z 2006-05-17T17:03:00Z

A fully customizable template for a tabletop exercise for pandemic influenza preparedness for use by state and local health agencies and their healthcare and governmental partners as an exercise in training, relationship building, and evaluation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR320.html 2006-05-19T16:43:00Z 2006-05-19T16:43:00Z

Describes a new quality-improvement tool that public health agencies can adopt to regularly look back at each routine annual influenza season to systematically institutionalize knowledge from one influenza season to the next.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR261.html 2005-08-04T10:40:00Z 2005-08-04T10:40:00Z

RAND developed the exercises in this manual as templates that local public health agencies (LPHAs) can customize and use to train public health workers in detecting and responding to bioterrorism events and assessing LPHAs' levels of preparedness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR712.html 2009-08-17T10:52:00Z 2009-08-17T10:52:00Z

Describes a tool for assessing key features of good crisis decision making that focuses on the processes of decision making -- situational awareness, action planning, and process control -- and can be used for exploratory analysis and process improvement.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR260.html 2005-07-14T07:35:00Z 2005-07-14T07:35:00Z

A manual of standardized proficiency tests to help public health agencies develop strategies for testing their disease reporting systems.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR719.html 2009-07-27T16:25:00Z 2009-07-27T16:25:00Z

Discusses the role of public health agencies in emergency preparedness for and response to chemical and radiological incidents.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR285.html 2005-08-31T05:59:00Z 2005-08-31T05:59:00Z

Describes the response of state and local health departments to outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), monkeypox, West Nile virus, and hepatitis A.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9279.html 2007-08-05T22:45:00Z 2007-08-05T22:45:00Z

This fact sheet describes tabletop exercises in six Georgia health districts and at the state level to understand what coordination and public health response are required among groups with diverse responsibilities and at different government levels.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR469.html 2007-04-11T20:31:00Z 2007-04-11T20:31:00Z

This report presents the findings of a project designed to identify system-level characteristics associated with consistently timely responses in telephone-based disease surveillance systems in local health departments.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR577.html 2009-12-30T16:10:00Z 2009-12-30T16:10:00Z

Currently, there are no established tools for identifying, measuring, and improving public health crisis decisionmaking. As a first step toward meeting this need, this paper describes a tool to measure and improve key aspects of decisionmaking.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR639.html 2009-08-04T11:13:00Z 2009-08-04T11:13:00Z

Contains a template that public health agencies can use to conduct a workshop to improve key aspects of Strategic National Stockpile planning: pediatric dispensing, altered standards of care, and allocation of scarce resources.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1273.html 2007-09-25T19:40:00Z 2007-09-25T19:40:00Z

Summarizes lessons learned from tabletop exercises about public health emergency preparedness and about the process of developing, conducting, and evaluating them.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP1250.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reports on an exercise examining the intentional introduction of avian influenza in commercial poultry operations during a severe human influenza season and explores issues associated with public health preparedness for major disease outbreaks.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20041232.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 2000, the Department of Health and Human Services awarded a contract to evaluate the implementation and impact of MH/SA parity benefits in terms of access, utilization, cost, and quality of care. The findings of this evaluation are reported in the attached report.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081213.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coordination and communication among health departments, emergency management agencies, and hospitals are essential for effective pandemic influenza planning. Identifies issues relevant to pandemic influenza preparedness in integrated care systems.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20081212.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this article, the authors argue that initial funding priorities for public health systems research on preparedness should focus on using engineering-style methods to identify core preparedness processes, developing novel data sources and measures based on smaller-scale proxy events, and developing performance improvement approaches to support the translation of research into practice within the wide variety of public health systems found in the nation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080902.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Health departments can achieve optimal performance by consistently connecting a caller with an action officer in 30 minutes or less and may improve performance by using a disease surveillance phone system in which a live person answers at all times.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050816.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The authors evaluated the ability of local public health agencies (LPHAs) to meet a preparedness standard set by the U.S. CDC

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050210.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This study explores suicide rates as a quality measure and identifies risk factors for suicide among psychiatric inpatients.