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ISBN: 9780309088176
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Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Practitioner's Handbook from Handshake to Compact
Author: Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response
Author: World Health OrganizationPublisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241547685
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
This guidance is an update of WHO global influenza preparedness plan: the role of WHO and recommendations for national measures before and during pandemics, published March 2005 (WHO/CDS/CSR/GIP/2005.5).
Exploring Lessons Learned from a Century of Outbreaks
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309490359
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
In November 2018, an ad hoc planning committee at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine planned two sister workshops held in Washington, DC, to examine the lessons from influenza pandemics and other major outbreaks, understand the extent to which the lessons have been learned, and discuss how they could be applied further to ensure that countries are sufficiently ready for future pandemics. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from both workshops.
International Workshop on Covid-19 Lessons to Inform Pandemic Influenza Response: Proceedings of a Workshop
Author: National Academy of MedicinePublisher:
ISBN: 9780309269674
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
While the world continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, novel influenza viruses persist as a constant pandemic threat. The global response to COVID-19 has pushed the boundaries on what is possible for rapid pandemic response in several areas, including vaccine research, development, manufacturing, equitable distribution, allocation, and administration. If well understood and sufficiently adapted, these actions could be applied to future pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccine preparedness efforts. However, developing and delivering these more effective vaccines to meet the demand goes beyond simply technical challenges and includes issues across governance, financing, research, supply chain, and public engagement. To address these challenges, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual public workshop in May of 2021 to discuss the emerging evidence on unprecedented actions related to COVID-19 that could inform and advance pandemic and seasonal influenza vaccine preparedness efforts and subsequent response. This Proceedings of a Workshop provides a high-level summary of the presentations and discussions that occurred during the workshop.
The Threat of Pandemic Influenza
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309095042
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Public health officials and organizations around the world remain on high alert because of increasing concerns about the prospect of an influenza pandemic, which many experts believe to be inevitable. Moreover, recent problems with the availability and strain-specificity of vaccine for annual flu epidemics in some countries and the rise of pandemic strains of avian flu in disparate geographic regions have alarmed experts about the world's ability to prevent or contain a human pandemic. The workshop summary, The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready? addresses these urgent concerns. The report describes what steps the United States and other countries have taken thus far to prepare for the next outbreak of "killer flu." It also looks at gaps in readiness, including hospitals' inability to absorb a surge of patients and many nations' incapacity to monitor and detect flu outbreaks. The report points to the need for international agreements to share flu vaccine and antiviral stockpiles to ensure that the 88 percent of nations that cannot manufacture or stockpile these products have access to them. It chronicles the toll of the H5N1 strain of avian flu currently circulating among poultry in many parts of Asia, which now accounts for the culling of millions of birds and the death of at least 50 persons. And it compares the costs of preparations with the costs of illness and death that could arise during an outbreak.
The Public Health Response to 2009 H1N1
Author: Michael A. StotoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190209267
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The 2009 H1N1 pandemic tested the limits of the public health emergency preparedness systems in the US and abroad. The successes and failures from this pandemic remain relevant, particularly as pathogens like MER-CoV and Ebola continue to proliferate. As the world's population continues to travel farther and with more frequency than ever before, the lessons of 2009 stand as important touchstones for future public health infrastructures and interventions. The Public Health Response to 2009 H1N1: A Systems Perspective draws lessons from the public health system's response to the influenza pandemic, offering a collection of chapters that are highly relevant to all public health emergencies. Not simply a historical case study, this analysis employs a systems perspective that encompasses both government health agencies and community-based entities such as care providers, schools, and media. The chapters demonstrate rigorous qualitative research approaches that can be used to analyze public health system responses to both pathogens and a wide variety of other public health emergencies. With contributions from a broad panel of experts, the book will be useful for anyone seeking to learn from pH1N1 and to see public health systems in current, specific contexts. The Public Health Response to 2009 H1N1 draws important insights from this global event and will help improve public health emergency preparedness systems for future pandemics.
Rapid Expert Consultations on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309676908
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
In response to a request from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a standing committee of experts to help inform the federal government on critical science and policy issues related to emerging infectious diseases and other 21st century health threats. This set of Rapid Expert Consultations are the first of their kind and represent the best evidence available to the Committee at the time each publication was released. The science on these issues is continually evolving, and the scientific consensus the Committee reaches on these topics will likely evolve with it. The standing committee includes members with expertise in emerging infectious diseases, public health, public health preparedness and response, biological sciences, clinical care and crisis standards of care, risk communication, and regulatory issues.
Flu
Author: Gina KolataPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429979356
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Veteran journalist Gina Kolata's Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It presents a fascinating look at true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic raged. Children were left orphaned and families were devastated. As many American soldiers were killed by the 1918 flu as were killed in battle during World War I. And no area of the globe was safe. Eskimos living in remote outposts in the frozen tundra were sickened and killed by the flu in such numbers that entire villages were wiped out. Scientists have recently rediscovered shards of the flu virus frozen in Alaska and preserved in scraps of tissue in a government warehouse. Gina Kolata, an acclaimed reporter for The New York Times, unravels the mystery of this lethal virus with the high drama of a great adventure story. Delving into the history of the flu and previous epidemics, detailing the science and the latest understanding of this mortal disease, Kolata addresses the prospects for a great epidemic recurring, and, most important, what can be done to prevent it.
Global Health and the Future Role of the United States
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309457637
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
While much progress has been made on achieving the Millenium Development Goals over the last decade, the number and complexity of global health challenges has persisted. Growing forces for globalization have increased the interconnectedness of the world and our interdependency on other countries, economies, and cultures. Monumental growth in international travel and trade have brought improved access to goods and services for many, but also carry ongoing and ever-present threats of zoonotic spillover and infectious disease outbreaks that threaten all. Global Health and the Future Role of the United States identifies global health priorities in light of current and emerging world threats. This report assesses the current global health landscape and how challenges, actions, and players have evolved over the last decade across a wide range of issues, and provides recommendations on how to increase responsiveness, coordination, and efficiency â€" both within the U.S. government and across the global health field.
Pandemic Influenza Preparedness - "Of the Many Health Threats that We are Preparing For, this is the One that We Know Will Happen." - Influenza Epidemiology and Virology 101
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Lessons from 2004-2005 influenza vaccine shortage 15 Lessons from 2004-2005 influenza vaccine shortage www.dhhs.gov/nvpo/pandemics HHS Draft Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Plan 16 www.dhhs.gov/nvpo/pandemics HHS' Draft Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Plan The U. [...] Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Plan • Core Plan - Describes National coordination and decision-making - Provides an overview of key preparedness issues - Outlines response actions at national, state, & local levels • Annexes (12) - Guidance for State/local Health Departments planning - Guidance for health care system planning - More detailed and technical information on key preparedn. [...] Impact Estimates for the Next Influenza Pandemic ! ! "" "#"#$ % & '($(!!% )&* + ,-- 18 "#!$%! & !'(( )# '%*+ # & "! ! "!+, - &#! .%#/(%# Purposes of the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Plan • Define and recommend preparedness activities • Describe roles, responsibilities and actions of federal coordination of response • International • State and local leve. [...] manufacturing capacity (cell culture methodology) • Develop and test investigational lots of pandemic-like vaccine strains • Clarify potential role of live attenuated influenza virus vaccine • Ensure effective distribution & administration to achieve pandemic response goals • Enhance interpandemic influenza vaccine use Priority Groups for Pandemic Vaccine • Definition of priority groups based on p. [...] S.-based influenza vaccine production • Influenza vaccine industry study (PRTM) • Produce annual lots of pandemic-like vaccine • Produce H5N1 vaccine - Conduct clinical trials - Commercial scale production/stockpile 2 M doses Interventions to Decrease Disease Spread in an Influenza Pandemic • Health care system interventions - Infection control and isolation of patients in hospitals - Vaccination/.