Bioterrorism Preparedness Training and Assessment Exercises for Local Public Health Agencies

Bioterrorism Preparedness Training and Assessment Exercises for Local Public Health Agencies

In 2003, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness contracted the RAND Corporation to develop and test tabletop exercises on early local public health agency (LPHA) responses to outbreaks caused by bioterrorism. RAND d...

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Main Author: Dausey, David J. (auth)
Other Authors: Lurie, Nicole (auth), Diamond, Alexis (auth), Meade, Barbara (auth), Molander, Roger C. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: RAND Corporation 2005
Subjects:
Medicolegal issues
Terrorism, armed struggle
Biomedical engineering
Health Sciences
Political Science
Technology
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Summary:In 2003, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness contracted the RAND Corporation to develop and test tabletop exercises on early local public health agency (LPHA) responses to outbreaks caused by bioterrorism. RAND developed the exercises in this manual as templates that LPHAs can customize and use to train public health workers in detecting and responding to bioterrorism events and assessing LPHAs' levels of preparedness.
ISBN:TR261DHHS
9780833059987
9780833038982
Access:Open Access

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