Public Health Systems and Preparedness
2011
Building Community Resilience to Disasters: A Roadmap to Guide Local Planning — 2011
Examines ways in which communities can improve their ability to withstand and recover from adversity.
Building Community Resilience to Disasters: A Way Forward to Enhance National Health Security — 2011
Provides a roadmap for federal, state, and local leaders who are developing plans to enhance community resilience for health security threats and describes options for building community resilience in key areas.
Commercial Products That Convey Personal Health Information in Emergencies — 2011
Describes commercially available products and services designed to convey personal health information in emergencies.
The Nongovernmental Sector in Disaster Resilience: Conference Recommendations for a Policy Agenda — 2011
This report summarizes findings from a conference intended to generate a national policy agenda for better engaging nongovernmental organizations in disaster response and recovery.
Prioritizing "psychological" Consequences for Disaster Preparedness and Response: A Framework for Addressing the Emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Effects of Patient Surge in Large-Scale Disasters — 2011
Health care facilities may be prepared to deal with the medical aspects of large-scale disasters but they lack guidelines for managing the psychological aspects of disasters.
Response to the 2009-H1n1 Influenza Pandemic in the Mekong Basin: Surveys of Country Health Leaders — 2011
Cooperation among the Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance countries improved their response to the 2009 H1N1 virus in areas previously considered problematic.
Using Geographic Information Systems to Match Local Health Needs with Public Health Services and Programs — 2011
Large local health departments could better inform planning and investments by using geographic information systems to align community needs and health outcomes with public health programs.
2010
Achieving Public Health Legal Preparedness: How Dissonant Views on Public Health Law Threaten Emergency Preparedness and Response — 2011
Organizational culture differences between public health and emergency management entities may hinder inter-agency collaboration.
Bridging the Gap: Developing a Tool to Support Local Civilian and Military Disaster Preparedness — 2010
This report describes the current policy context for domestic all-hazards risk-informed capabilities-based planning by local military and civilian authorities and provides a framework for a local planning support tool for their use.
Developing National Standards for Public Health Emergency Preparedness with a Limited Evidence Base — 2010
National performance standards for public health preparedness can be developed based on existing evidence, but would be helped immensely by a stronger evidence base.
Disaster Recovery Also Involves Human Recovery — 2010
This commentary argues that unless the U.S. examines and plans for the psychological consequences of disasters such as Katrina and the recent oil spill, communities will be struggling to address acute and chronic health issues while trying to rebuild.
Enhancing Disaster Recovery: Lessons from Exemplary International Disaster Management Practices — 2010
Successful disaster recovery efforts in other countries emphasized local empowerment, organization and leadership, and planning for sustainability-providig potential lessons for US disaster management.
Federal Initiative Increases Community Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies — 2010
This article describes an evaluation of the Cities Readiness Initiative, a federal program to improve communities' ability to dispense medications rapidly during emergencies.
Influenza Vaccine: Safe, Effective, and Mistrusted — 2010
The public's acceptance of vaccination may be more difficult to achieve than addressing the technical and scientific challenges involved in quickly producing large quantities of a safe and effective vaccine.
Navigating the Road to Recovery: Assessment of the Coordination, Communication, and Financing of the Disaster Case Management Pilot in Louisiana — 2010
Researchers assessing a disaster case management pilot recommend that future efforts establish better ways to find affected residents, consider needs/vulnerabilities in planning, and ensure continuity of services before, during, and after disaster.
Perceived Seriousness of Seasonal and A(H1N1) Influenzas, Attitudes Toward Vaccination, and Vaccine Uptake Among U.S. Adults: Does the Source of Information Matter? — 2010
Information campaigns made more adults concerned about a pandemic, but didn't reassure them sufficiently about H1N1 vaccine safety and effectiveness that they got the vaccine.
Psychological Effects of Patient Surge in Large-Scale Emergencies: A Quality Improvement Tool for Hospital and Clinic Capacity Planning and Response — 2010
A novel and practical quality improvement tool can help hospitals and clinics plan for and respond to the psychological consequences of catastrophic events that create a surge of psychological casualties presenting for health care.
Research Priorities for Syndromic Surveillance Systems Response: Consensus Development Using Nominal Group Technique — 2010
This paper describes an expert panel process that identified a set of fundable and practically feasible research priorities in the field of syndromic surveillance.
Small Area Variations in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Does the Neighborhood Matter? — 2010
Using surveillance data, researchers identified neighborhoods in a Georgia county with a persistently high incidence of cardiac arrest and low rates of bystander CPR. Such neighborhoods are promising targets for community-based interventions.
2009
Decision-Making Modules for the RSS-POD Supply Management Game: A Game-Based Assessment of Crisis Decision Making During Inventory Management and Distribution of Medical Countermeasures — 2009
Introduces and explains two new modules for the RSS-POD Supply Chain Management Game, an Excel-based computer simulation game designed to provide practice in managing inventories of medical countermeasures during a largescale public health emergency.
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