EMERGENCY PUBLIC NOTIFICATION BY THE STATE AUTHORITIES

The Public Health: Interviews with Local Authorities

authority in the City of Birmingham to see that these vast numbers of workmen with their dependants?comprised in a population now numbering 920,000?are well housed and care for. Fortified with the knowledge that another visitor to Birmingham in 1752, then a considerable market town, found its inhabitants to be " generally of an obliging and ingenious disposition," we sought an interview with Mr...

Improving laws and legal authorities for public health emergency legal preparedness.

47 Introduction This paper is one of the four interrelated action agenda papers resulting from the National Summit on Public Health Legal Preparedness (Summit) convened in June 2007 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and multi-disciplinary partners. Each of the action agenda papers deals with one of the four core elements of legal preparedness: laws and legal authorities; compete...

Assessing laws and legal authorities for public health emergency legal preparedness.

Outcome of patients hospitalized by public authorities in a public mental health sector

Background In France, the laws of 27 June 1990 modified by the law of 4 March 2002 define the scope and procedures of involuntary hospitalizations. Regarding hospitalization by the public authorities the laws state that there must be a threat to the safety of individuals or a serious threat to public order. This procedure is applied since 1838, yet its practice and usefulness have never been as...

EVResponse - Moving Beyond Traditional Emergency Response Notification

Federal, state and local governmental agencies have been investing considerably in emergency response management systems to assist crisis management officers in the assessment, mitigation and response to emergency situations. In crisis management contexts, the timeliness of a response may be determined with reference to a fixed instant in the form of an absolute action threshold. This establish...