Engaging the private-sector health care system in building capacity to respond to threats to the public's health and national security proceedings of a workshop
Disasters tend to cross political, jurisdictional, functional, and geographic boundaries. As a result, disasters often require responses from multiple levels of government and multiple organizations in the public and private sectors. This means that public and private organizations that normally ope...
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC
National Academies Press
2018, [2018]
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| Summary: | Disasters tend to cross political, jurisdictional, functional, and geographic boundaries. As a result, disasters often require responses from multiple levels of government and multiple organizations in the public and private sectors. This means that public and private organizations that normally operate independently must work together to mount an effective disaster response. To identify and understand approaches to aligning health care system incentives with the American public's need for a health care system that is prepared to manage acutely ill and injured patients during a disaster, public health emergency, or other mass casualty event, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a 2-day public workshop on March 20 and 21, 2018. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop |
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| Physical Description: | 1 PDF file (xiv, 139 pages) map |
| ISBN: | 0309482127 9780309482158 9780309482127 |