Homeland Security and Public Health: A Critical Integration

Health security as a public health concept: a critical analysis.

There is growing acceptance of the concept of health security. However, there are various and incompatible definitions, incomplete elaboration of the concept of health security in public health operational terms, and insufficient reconciliation of the health security concept with community-based primary health care. More important, there are major differences in understanding and use of the con...

Homeland Security

Towards Semantic Integration of Legacy Databases for Homeland Security

Sharing information between diverse heterogeneous databases and users has become one of the common goals of ontology-based systems (Musen, 1992; Gruber, 1993). Several commercial endeavors have been successful, such as Yahoo! with taxonomies for categorizing websites and Amazon.com for categorizing products, respectively. However, large legacy databases raise many challenges. The data base sche...

Department of Homeland Security.

This is one of a series of audit, inspection, and special reports prepared as part of our oversight responsibilities to promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness within the department. This report addresses FEMA's preparedness for the next catastrophic disaster. It is based on interviews with employees and officials of relevant agencies and institutions, direct observations, and a review o...

Homeland Security and Defense Center

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