Development of Occupational Health Measures for the National Health Security Preparedness Index
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Development of Occupational Health Measures for the National Health Security Preparedness Index
The 2001 World Trade Center and 2005 Hurricane disasters, and the 2014 Ebola outbreak were major events that tasked the United States' public health emergency preparedness and response apparatus. The health and economic cost of these events is huge including over 4000 deaths and damages to infrastructure worth hundreds of billions of dollars. Unfortunately, the U.S. labor force was disproportio...
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h M D d t o M m t f [Ann Emerg Med. 2013;62:509-510.] Editor’s Note: This article is the introduction to a new series that describes the many ways that the Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) interacts with the emergency care system. DHHS includes many divisions that are well known to the health care world including the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Health Resources and ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Public Health
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2296-2565
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00079