PUBHLTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 90: Strategic National Stockpile, Incident Command System, Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
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Es 9 evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based. Health services: evaluation must be ongoing and should examine, personal health services, population based services, the public health system, quality improvement, performance management. 29- emergency preparedness (chapter 30 in the 4th edition) 9/11 response - failures of communication and coordination. Failure to protect rescues and cleanup workers from environmental hazards. Principles of emergency preparedness - importance of advance planning involving all agencies. Put one person in charge of the scene. Strategic national stockpile of medical supplies, antibiotics, vaccines, antidotes for chemical agents. Bioterrorism agents - examples are small pox, anthrax, plague, botulinum toxin, tularemia bacteria, and hemorrhagic fever virus. Surveillance - emergency room visits, calls to 911 and poison control centers, pharmacy records, and veterinary disease. Smallpox highly contagious, no immunity in population dark winter exercise (public health is a major national security issue). An attack could cause massive civilian casualties, breakdown in essential institutions, civil disorder, etc.
