Recommended infrastructure standards for mass antibiotic dispensing
Since 2001, the U.S. government has spent more than $7 billion to enhance state and local preparedness for bioterrorism attacks, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and other large-scale public health emergencies. A central component of this effort involves the ability to dispense antibiotics and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Monica, CA
RAND Health
2008, 2008
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| Series: | Technical report
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Since 2001, the U.S. government has spent more than $7 billion to enhance state and local preparedness for bioterrorism attacks, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, and other large-scale public health emergencies. A central component of this effort involves the ability to dispense antibiotics and other life-saving medical countermeasures to large populations under short timelines. This report presents recommended standards for points of dispensing (or PODs), locations where the public would receive life-saving antibiotics or other medical countermeasures during a large-scale public health emergency. The standards, which are designed to apply to widely divergent jurisdictions, rely on expert panel evaluations, current POD planning practices, and computer-modeled scenarios |
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| Item Description: | Title from PDF cover. - "Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services and was carried out within the RAND Health Center for Domestic and International Health Security." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780833060068 0833060066 |