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Title Organizing state and local health departments for public health preparedness / Jeffrey Wasserman [and others].

Imprint Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource
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Series Technical report
Technical report (Rand Corporation)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction -- Analytic approach -- Results -- Summary and conclusions -- Appendix A: CDC progress report indicators (2004) -- Appendix B: Public health laboratories' survey questions used in analysis -- Appendix C: Robust regression with centralization-regionalization interactions.
Summary Improving the ability to respond to bioterrorism and other emergencies is an important challenge facing the U.S. public health system. Despite having a knowledgeable workforce, practice and experience, capacity, and partnerships with other responders in the community, the system2s ability to respond may depend largely on its structure. This study examines a key question: Are state and local public health agencies related to one another in a way that facilitates emergency response? Specific objectives of this study are to explain the factors influencing the particular ways in which state and local public health systems are organized, how the various types of relationships that exist between state and local public health departments have been arrived at, and, most important, the consequences of such structures and relationships for emergency preparedness. We also examine alternative structures from several different types of service industries (public education, banking, the welfare system, and port authorities). Finally, we recommend concrete strategies to improve public health preparedness. This report will be of interest to policymakers and to public health professionals at the state and local levels who are involved in bioterrorism response and emergency preparedness, as well as to other agencies involved in emergency response.
System Details Mode of access: internet via WWW. CStmoR
Language English.
Subject Emergency management -- United States -- Evaluation.
Crisis management -- Health aspects.
Preparedness.
Public health administration -- United States.
Hospitals -- Administration -- Planning.
Disaster medicine -- United States -- Evaluation.
Public health -- United States -- Evaluation.
Public health administration.
Local government.
Public Health Administration
Disaster Planning -- organization & administration
Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration
State Government
Local Government
United States
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Social Welfare & Social Work -- General.
État de préparation.
Santé publique -- Administration -- États-Unis.
Hôpitaux -- Administration -- Planification.
Médecine de catastrophes -- États-Unis -- Évaluation.
Santé publique -- États-Unis -- Évaluation.
Santé publique -- Administration.
Administration locale.
local government.
Local government
Emergency management -- Evaluation
Hospitals -- Administration -- Planning
Preparedness
Public health administration
Public health -- Evaluation
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Genre/Form Technical Report
Added Author Wasserman, Jeffrey.
Jacobson, Peter D.
Lurie, Nicole.
Nelson, Christopher.
Ricci, Karen.
Shea, Molly V.
Zazzali, James.
Nelson, Martha I.
Center for Domestic and International Health Security.
RAND Health.
Rand Corporation.
United States. Department of Health and Human Services.
ISBN 9780833060044 (electronic bk.)
083306004X (electronic bk.)
Report No. RAND/TR-318-DHHS
Standard No. AU@ 000051511694
NLM 101284823
AU@ 000061155878
GBVCP 1008649236

 
    
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