Coordinating funding in public health emergencies

Public health emergencies: What Counts?

Public health funding mechanisms in New Zealand.

The funding of population-based public health services (health protection, health promotion and disease prevention) has received little attention in the international literature on health reforms, and yet these services are of fundamental importance to the health of populations and to the economy. This article provides justification for health policy-makers placing more emphasis on the level of...

Crowdinforming During Public Health Emergencies: A Commentary

During the recent 2009 Novel H1N1 influenza pandemic, public health safety efforts included prevention and mitigation actions such as mass vaccination programs, community education focused on infection control, social distancing and how to avoid contracting and spreading influenza.[1-3] There were also programs to rapidly deploy caches of ventilators, antivirals and personal protective equipmen...

Public health, emergencies and the humanitarian impulse.

The global response to the tsunami disaster in south Asia on 26 December 2004 has been overwhelming. Approximately US$ 6 billion have been pledged in aid by citizens and governments, and authorities have offered military assistance and debt relief (W1). This outpouring of goodwill reflects the universality of the humanitarian impulse: an innate, altruistic urge to assist fellow human beings who...

Risk communication for public health emergencies.

This review defines crisis risk communication, traces its origins to a number of applied fields, and then shows how basic principles have become incorporated into emergency preparedness and risk communication for public health. Literature from four different disciplines that inform crisis risk communications are reviewed. These are (a) environmental risk communication, (b) disaster management, ...