Emergency disease planning and preparedness

Integrating hospitals into community emergency preparedness planning.

BACKGROUND Strong community linkages are essential to a health care organization's overall preparedness for emergencies. OBJECTIVE To assess community emergency preparedness linkages among hospitals, public health officials, and first responders and to investigate the influence of community hazards, previous preparation for an event requiring national security oversight, and experience respon...

Preparedness for emergency response: guidelines for the emergency planning process.

Especially since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, governments worldwide have invested considerable resources in the writing of terrorism emergency response plans. Particularly in the United States, the federal government has created new homeland security organisations and urged state and local governments to draw up plans. This emphasis on the written plan tends to draw attention awa...

Disseminating Emergency Preparedness Planning Models as Automatically Generated Custom Spreadsheets

When public health officials requested OR models to help county health departments across the United States create plans for dispensing medications and vaccines during emergencies, we developed capacity planning and queueing network models. We then faced the challenge of distributing these models to people with minimal experience with OR techniques and no resources for acquiring and learning ne...

Emergency preparedness and disability.

Emergency Preparedness in the 10-Mile Emergency Planning Zone Surrounding Nuclear Power Plants.

OBJECTIVES Each of the nuclear power plants in the US is encircled by an Emergency Planning Zone (EPZ). Within each EPZ, government officials, utility professionals, emergency managers, and public health practitioners collectively conduct extensive planning, exercises, and outreach to better protect their communities in the event of a nuclear accident. Our objective was to conduct a cross-secti...