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Examining challenges and possible strategies to strengthen U.S. health security : proceedings of a workshop / Anna Nicholson, Lisa Brown, and Justin Snair, rapporteurs ; Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Health and Medicine Division, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies, author.
- Board on Health Sciences Policy, author.
- Health and Medicine Division, author.
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--United States--Congresses.
- Public health.
- Emergency management--United States--Congresses.
- Emergency management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (108 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- As the United States continues to adapt to a more digital, mobile, and interconnected world, health care and public health professionals have sought to better prepare for and respond to long-standing and emerging threats to the nation's health security. Health security is the collective effort to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the health consequences of natural, man-made, and technological disasters. Although substantial progress has been made in the past 15 years toward improving health care and public health systems and capacities for health security threats, many complex challenges persist, and often the nation's preparedness efforts are not sufficient. On March 8-9, 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Disasters and Emergencies hosted a two-day public workshop to acknowledge these persistent issues; to evaluate past, and perhaps inadequate, approaches to addressing them; and to discuss intentional and innovative new solutions. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 22, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 0-309-46378-5
- 0-309-46376-9
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