Journal article
Public health and terrorism preparedness: cross-border issues
Public health reports (1974), Vol.120 Suppl 1(1_suppl), pp.76-83
2005
DOI: 10.1177/00333549051200S115
PMCID: PMC2569992
PMID: 16025711
Abstract
On December 15, 2003, the Centers for Public Health Preparedness at the University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa convened the "Public Health and Terrorism Preparedness: Cross-Border Issues Roundtable." The purpose of the roundtable was to gather public health professionals and government agency representatives at the state, provincial, and local levels to identify unmet cross-border emergency preparedness and response needs and develop strategies for addressing these needs. Representatives from six state and local public health departments and three provincial governments were invited to identify cross-border needs and issues using a nominal group process. The result of the roundtable was identification of the needs considered most important and most doable across all the focus groups. The need to collaborate on and exchange plans and protocols among agencies was identified as most important and most doable across all groups. Development of contact protocols and creation and maintenance of a contact database was also considered important and doable for a majority of groups. Other needs ranked important across the majority of groups included specific isolation and quarantine protocols for multi-state responses; a system for rapid and secure exchange of information; specific protocols for sharing human resources across borders, including emergency credentials for physicians and health care workers; and a specific protocol to coordinate Strategic National Stockpile mechanisms across border communities.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Public health and terrorism preparedness: cross-border issues
- Creators
- Debra Olson - University of MinnesotaAggie Leitheiser - Minnesota Department of HealthChristopher Atchison - University of IowaSusan Larson - University of MinnesotaCassandra Homzik - University of Minnesota
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Public health reports (1974), Vol.120 Suppl 1(1_suppl), pp.76-83
- DOI
- 10.1177/00333549051200S115
- PMID
- 16025711
- PMCID
- PMC2569992
- ISSN
- 0033-3549
- eISSN
- 1468-2877
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2005
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984283851902771
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