Funding the public health response to terrorism

Trust, terrorism and public health.

Policies to promote public health are based on trust. There is a danger that public trust may be lost, especially where policies are seen to be influenced by vested interests or conflict with available evidence. Although trust in public health policies in the UK is high, some commentators have questioned recent responses to the threat of pandemic flu, suggesting that they may be driven, in part...

The implications of terrorism for public health.

The true historical significance of any event can only be assessed 50 years after it has happened but the view that ‘things will never be the same after September 11th’ now seems to be widely accepted. While some Europeans have lived with the threat of terrorism for many years, in regions such as Northern Ireland or the Basque country, the events in the US have added new dimensions in their sca...

Public Health Perspectives Related to Technological Disasters and Terrorism

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...

Terrorism and public health: the little known equation.

Sitting in our offices early in the morning of September 11, 2001, we, like many across the world, watched with incredulity the twin terrorist strikes on the World Trade Centre. Riveted to the television screen, we witnessed the beginnings of a nightmare whose images will likely remain with us for a long time. September 11, and the events that followed, changed our assumptions of world terroris...