Provides a coherent and comprehensive account of the theory and practice of real-time
human disease outbreak detection, explicitly recognizing the revolution in practices of …

The purpose of this article is to introduce the relatively new field of public health informatics
and provide examples of how informatics is currently being applied to health promotion …

Introduction: Disaster preparedness is an area of major concern for the medical community
that has been reinforced by recent world events. The emergency healthcare system must …

Using the 2005 National Association of County and City Health Officers Profile of Local
Health Departments data set, bivariate probit and Heckman selection models were used to …

Objectives. To assess the individual andteam skills acquired from an interactive training
program to prepare emergency personnel to respond to terrorist acts. Methods. We …

Hospitals and healthcare workers face the challenge of being prepared to manage victims of
acts of terrorism that involve chemical, biological, and radiological agents that they do not …

The annals of public health record many milestones in the evolution of this area of the
governance of human affairs. The development of bacteriology in the late nineteenth and …

After the bioterrorism-anthrax attacks of 2001, public health officials were tasked with
planning population-wide medicine dispensing. This planning started with assumptions and …

Since September 2001, health threats associated with acts of terrorism have become an
area of increasing concern. The Strategy for Homeland Security stresses the need for a …

Efforts to establish close relations between medi-cine and public health date back to the 4th
century BC, when Hippocrates urged physicians to recognize the environmental, social, and …