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Title Organizing state and local health departments for public health preparedness / Jeffrey Wasserman [and others]
Published Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2006

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Description 1 online resource
Series Technical report
Technical report (Rand Corporation)
Contents 880-01 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
880-01/(Q Introduction -- Analytic Approach -- Results -- Summary and Conclusions -- Appendix A: CDC Progress Report Indicators (2004) -- Appendix B: Public Health Laboratorieѕє́є Survey Questions Used in Analysis -- Appendix C: Robust Regression with Centralization-Regionalization Interactions
Summary 880-02 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
880-02/(N 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 systeмє́єs 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 responseSpecific 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Mode of access: internet via WWW. CStmoR
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
local government.
Local government
Emergency management -- Evaluation
Hospitals -- Administration -- Planning
Preparedness
Public health administration
Public health -- Evaluation
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
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
083306004X