Pandemic Preparedness and Public Health Expenditure

Revisiting public health preparedness: Incorporating social justice principles into pandemic preparedness planning for influenza.

Public health professionals are responsible for ensuring the health of the nation, which requires that planners for public health emergencies recognize that not including protection for underserved or marginalized communities poses a risk to the entire population. To assure the protection of these populations in the event of a pandemic outbreak, preparedness planning will benefit from the appli...

“Principles and Standards for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Public Health Preparedness and Pandemic Mitigation Programs”

The primary goal of this paper is to outline a set of principles and standards (P&S) to be used in benefit-cost analyses of public policies and programs for public health preparedness and pandemic mitigation (PHP/PM). These policies include the stockpiling and distribution of vaccines or antiviral drugs, disease surveillance networks, social distancing measures such as school closures, and quar...

An ethics framework for public health and avian influenza pandemic preparedness.

Public health as an organized discipline began more than 100 years ago to improve the health, primarily, of populations rather than of individuals. Given its population-based focus, however, public health is forever facing dilemmas concerning the appropriate extent of its reach and when the work of public health professionals is infringing on individual liberties in ethically troublesome ways. ...

Public health preparedness laws and policies: where do we go after pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza?

Conceptualizing and defining public health emergency preparedness.

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