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Controlling disease outbreaks : the changing role of hospitals / Raoul E. Nap ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nap, Raoul E.
- Series:
- Public health in the 21st century series.
- Public health in the 21st century series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Epidemics.
- Hospitals.
- Clinical epidemiology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (110 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Recent outbreaks of a novel avian influenza A virus (H5N1) in Asia, Africa and Europe were a chilling reminder that another human pandemic may occur any time. Such a worldwide outbreak will cause intense human suffering, disruption of social systems, major economic losses, and greatly burden health care services. Several pandemics during the last century, like the Spanish flu' (1918), the Asian flu' (1957), the Hong Kong flu' (1968) and SARS (2003) prompted health care authorities for preparedness planning. This new book describes these recent incidents and emphasizes the need for more structured planning and preparation for medical emergencies such as emerging infectious disease outbreaks.
- Contents:
- Preparing the health care system
- Impact of avian influenza in the Netherlands
- Hospital capacity
- Intensive care unit capacity
- Workforce
- General practitioners
- Age distribution
- Underlying disease and co-morbidity
- Mitigation of pandemic influenza
- Containment measures for pandemic influenza
- Healthcare system readiness
- Internal preparation
- Business continuity
- External preparation
- Evidence-based management
- Evidence from focused modeling : a case study from the Netherlands
- Hospital and intensive care unit capacity
- Mitigation and containment measures for pandemic influenza
- Methodological considerations.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61668-739-8
- OCLC:
- 923662972
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