REPORT
Climate change, water scarcity, and pandemics are examined for their national security implications and impacts on the global commons. This paper describes four clusters of policy approaches for these complex, interconnected issues and uses suggestive examples to build the case for policy evolution away from fixing problems and toward innovative alternatives, such as anti-fragile systems, that actually benefit from change and uncertainty.
COMMENTARY
To assure the health security of the United States, we must be capable of stopping anything a terrorist or Mother Nature might throw at us. Wholesale cuts to public health are taking us farther from that goal, write Art Kellermann and Melinda Moore.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
This article examines the different ways in which faith-based organizations (FBO) frame discussions about HIV.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Influenza vaccines that provide short-term protection maintain risk awareness regarding influenza in the population and result in stable vaccination coverage. Vaccines that provide long-term protection could lead to substantial drops in vaccination coverage and should therefore include an annual epidemic risk awareness programs in order to minimize the risk of severe epidemics.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
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.
REPORT
American adults are not being vaccinated against the seasonal flu any more often than they were last year, despite increased public discussion of the importance of influenza vaccines resulting from the worldwide outbreak of the H1N1 virus.
REPORT
In mid-November 2009, RAND conducted a survey of a nationally representative sample of adults age 18 and over to collect data on the uptake of the seasonal influenza vaccine in the United States. The detailed survey data presented here will inform public health officials and other stakeholders about progress toward vaccinating adults, in particular members of key subgroups, prior to the end of the vaccination season in late winter.
REPORT
Presents tools for assessing state/local health departments' capability to rapidly deliver medical countermeasures in response to a public health emergency; provides a framework for determining which elements of the capability to assess; describes procedures for the five assessments developed; summarizes methods and findings from field tests; and identifies next steps and policy implications.
NEWS RELEASE
State and local health departments get mixed marks for efforts to convey information about the H1N1 virus to the public using their Web sites immediately after U.S. officials declared a public health emergency in April.
REPORT
In March 2009, RAND conducted a survey of a nationally representative sample of adults age 18 and over to collect data on the receipt of the influenza vaccine in the United States. This overview of the survey results will inform public health officials and other stakeholders on uptake of the vaccine by adults during the 2008-2009 vaccination season.
REPORT
In March 2009, RAND conducted a survey of a nationally representative sample of adults age 18 and over to collect data on the receipt of the influenza vaccine in the United States. The detailed survey data presented here will inform public health officials and other stakeholders on uptake of the vaccine by adults during the 2008–2009 vaccination season.
COMMENTARY
In the rush of constant news updates on swine flu, we must recognize that controlling the spread of this disease is not simply a health concern but also one of national security. And in today's globalized world, the spread of swine flu has become not just a U.S. national security threat but every country's national security threat, writes Melinda Moore.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Assesses the extent to which the systems in place for prevention and control of routine annual influenza could provide the information and experience needed to manage a pandemic
REPORT
Mounting an effective emergency response to a public health threat, such as a pandemic influenza, is a common challenge of state and local public health agencies across the country. The PREPARE toolkit provides a brief tutorial on using quality improvement methods to build agency capabilities and public health emergency preparedness.
REPORT
In mid-November, RAND conducted a survey of a nationally representative sample of adults age 18 and over to collect data on the receipt of the influenza vaccine in the United States. The detailed survey data presented here will inform public health officials and other stakeholders about progress toward vaccinating adults, and in particular members of key subgroups, prior to the end of the vaccination season in late winter.
REPORT
In mid-November, RAND conducted a survey of a nationally representative sample of adults age 18 and over to collect data on the receipt of the influenza vaccine in the United States. This overview of the survey results will inform public health officials and other stakeholders about progress toward vaccinating adults, and in particular members of key subgroups, prior to the end of the vaccination season in late winter.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Coordination and communication among community partners-including health departments, emergency management agencies, and hospitals-are essential for effective pandemic influenza planning and response. As the nation's largest integrated health care system, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) could be a key component of community planning.
NEWS RELEASE
Public health departments that staff disease-reporting hotlines with live operators at all times are more likely to meet federal guidelines designed to help stop the spread of infectious diseases.
NEWS RELEASE
April 5, 2007 news release: RAND Panel Identifies Key Components of Public Health Emergency Preparedness.
COMMENTARY
Published commentary by RAND staff: A Desired Epidemic: Obesity and the Food Industry, in Washingtonpost.com.
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