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
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.
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.
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
April 5, 2007 news release: RAND Panel Identifies Key Components of Public Health Emergency Preparedness.
REPORT
New influenza A virus subtypes, similar to those that caused the three pandemics of the 20th century, are likely to emerge in the 21st century. RAND offers a manual of tabletop exercises that can be used by state and local health agencies to help prepare for such a threat.
REPORT
Describes a new quality-improvement tool, Look-Backs, that public health agencies can adopt to regularly look back at each annual influenza season to systematically institutionalize knowledge from one influenza season to the next; continuously improve the public health response to routine annual influenza; and incorporate lessons into preparedness activities for pandemic influenza and other public health emergencies.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
In the United States, preparation for a potential influenza pandemic is receiving heightened media coverage and scrutiny.
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