Emergency planning: Be prepared

Be prepared.

Remember back when Medicaid was Medicaid and Medicare was Medicare? These state and federal programs, which respectively provide medical assistance to low-income families and health insurance for individuals with disabilities and the elderly, were complicated enough when they became law as part of the Social Security Act in 1965. Now we've added managed care to the mix.

Be Prepared.

Learning to be prepared

Behavioral economics provides several motivations for the common observation that agents appear somewhat unwilling to deviate from recent choices. More recent choices can be more salient than other choices, or more readily available in the agent’s mind. Alternatively, agents may have formed habits, or use rules of thumb. This paper provides discrete-time adjustment processes for strategic games...

Emergency settings: be prepared to vaccinate persons aged 15 and over against measles.

In their landmark article on measles prevention in emergency settings, Toole and colleagues recommended in 1989 that all children aged 6 months to 5 years should be immunized with measles vaccine at the time they enter an organized camp or settlement [1]. In 2000, Salama and colleagues documented substantial mortality during a famine emergency in Ethiopia, with measles and malnutrition as major...

Are you prepared for an emergency?