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Summit Ties Sustainability to Improved Public Health

summit ties sustainability to improved public Health Armed with enthusiasm, expertise, and a desire for sustainable solutions to meet the current and future needs of society, participants met 7–8 November 2011 in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, for the fourth annual summit of the Research Triangle Environmental Health Collaborative, titled " Incorporating Public and Environmental Health...

Has bioterrorism preparedness improved public health?

In anticipation of future terrorist attacks, the nation has been focused on emergency preparedness, including threats to public health and the ability of communities to respond to them. The Center for Studying Health System Change's (HSC) recent site visits to 12 nationally representative communities found early benefits to public health due to heightened attention to bioterrorism preparedness:...

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Linking public health agencies and hospitals for improved emergency preparedness: North Carolina's public health epidemiologist program

BACKGROUND In 2003, 11 public health epidemiologists were placed in North Carolina's largest hospitals to enhance communication between public health agencies and healthcare systems for improved emergency preparedness. We describe the specific services public health epidemiologists provide to local health departments, the North Carolina Division of Public Health, and the hospitals in which they...

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Methods The number of cases of death were obtained from the 2002 and 2005 Mortality Database and population data from the Population Census 2002. Standardized sex specific rates of non-traumatic and traumatic mortality in 2002 and 2005 were calculated in relation to the European standard population. We presented population pyramid and aging index for both populations in 2002 and compared sex sp...