Recommended infrastructure standards for mass antibiotic dispensing /

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Since 2001, the U.S. government has spent more than $7 billion to enhance state and local preparedness for bioterrorism attacks, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and other large-scale public health emergencies. A central component of this effort involves the ability to dispense antibiotics and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: RAND Health, Center for Domestic and International Health Security, United States. Department of Health and Human Services
Otros Autores: Nelson, Christopher D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Health, 2008.
Colección:Technical report (Rand Corporation)
Temas:
United States. > Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act.
Epidemics > United States.
Emergency management > United States.
Antibiotics.
Anti-Bacterial Agents > supply & distribution
Disease Outbreaks > prevention & control
Mass Casualty Incidents > prevention & control
Disaster Planning > standards
Civil Defense > standards
Épidémies > États-Unis.
Antibiotics
Emergency management
Epidemics
United States
Statistics
Technical Report
Statistics.
Statistiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Since 2001, the U.S. government has spent more than $7 billion to enhance state and local preparedness for bioterrorism attacks, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and other large-scale public health emergencies. A central component of this effort involves the ability to dispense antibiotics and other life-saving medical countermeasures to large populations under short timelines. This report presents recommended standards for points of dispensing (or PODs), locations where the public would receive life-saving antibiotics or other medical countermeasures during a large-scale public health emergency. The standards, which are designed to apply to widely divergent jurisdictions, rely on expert panel evaluations, current POD planning practices, and computer-modeled scenarios.
Notas:Title from PDF cover.
"Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services and was carried out within the RAND Health Center for Domestic and International Health Security."
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780833060068
0833060066

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