Local governments play an important role in the COVID-19 pandemic response. They can identify local vulnerabilities and respond accordingly. In this commentary, we are examining relationship between case fatality numbers provincial Indonesia using correlations data visualization. We use public health development index, regional sustainable competitiveness their components as proxies for governm...

BACKGROUND Emergency Medical Services workers' willingness to report to duty in an influenza pandemic is essential to healthcare system surge amidst a global threat. Application of Witte's Extended Parallel Process Model (EPPM) has shown utility for revealing influences of perceived threat and efficacy on non-EMS public health providers' willingness to respond in an influenza pandemic. We thus ...

BACKGROUND The large-scale deployment of antiviral drugs from the Strategic National Stockpile during the 2009 H1N1 influenza response provides a unique opportunity to study local public health implementation of the medical countermeasure dispensing capability in a prolonged event of national significance. This study aims to describe the range of methods used by local health departments (LHDs) ...

Tippett and co-authors are to be congratulated for an insightful and well written paper that addresses an important issue in prehospital care. Governments and emergency operations personnel often plan for future pandemics with a focus on distribution of " stuff " such as gloves, masks, beds, and ventilators. Inadequate attention is directed to healthcare provider staffing, including staffing of...

The national strategy against pandemic influenza essentially consists of 3 prongs: (i) effective surveillance, (ii) mitigation of the pandemic's impact, and (iii) render the population immune through vaccination. When the pandemic hits Singapore, the response plan aims to achieve the following 3 outcomes: (i) maintenance of essential services to limit social and economic disruption, (ii) reduct...

Background: A coordinated disaster response needs a well-organized structure and a locally adapted framework. In light of this, the COVID-19 pandemic offered an opportunity to renovate the response structure, which exhibited deficiencies during the pandemic. Iran shares the experience of an integrated response structure named the Reform Incidents Command System. It includes an integrated approa...

Introduction Accurately gauging the health status of a population during an event of public health significance (e.g. hurricanes, H1N1 2009 pandemic) in support of emergency response and situation awareness efforts can be a challenge for established public health surveillance systems in terms of geographic and population coverage as well as the appropriateness of health indicators. The demand f...

BACKGROUND There are no completed randomised trials of the use of corticosteroids in patients with severe influenza infection. Corticosteroid use in influenza is widespread, non-systematic and marked by controversy. A recent meta-analysis of observational studies of adjuvant corticosteroids in influenza found an association with increased mortality but there were important concerns regarding th...

A strong evidence base provides the foundation for planning and response strategies. Investments in pandemic preparedness included support for research that aided early detection, response, and control of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) (pH1N1) pandemic. Scientific investigations conducted during the pandemic guided understanding of the virus, disease severity, and epidemiologic risk factors. Field...

Received 18 November 2005; accepted 18 November 2005; electronically published 29 November 2005 Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to saving lives by protecting the health of every community and working to make disease prevention a national priority. Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Jeffrey Levi, Trust for America’s Health, 1707 H St. NW, Washing...