Public Health and Terrorism Preparedness: Cross-Border Issues

Assessing regional public health preparedness: a new tool for considering cross-border issues.

OBJECTIVE To provide regional, state, and local public health officials a conceptual framework and checklist for assessing regional public health emergency preparedness, specifically in regard to cross-border public health preparedness needs. METHODS The project had four phases that are as follows: defining the scope, conducting a literature review, soliciting expert opinion, and creating the...

A Public Health Preparedness Logic Model: Assessing Preparedness for Cross-border Threats in the European Region

Improving preparedness in the European region requires a clear understanding of what European Union (EU) member states should be able to do, whether acting internally or in cooperation with each other or the EU and other multilateral organizations. We have developed a preparedness logic model that specifies the aims and objectives of public health preparedness, as well as the response capabilit...

Public Provision and Cross-Border Health Care

We study how the optimal public provision of health care depends on whether or not individuals have an option to seek publicly financed treatment in other regions. We find that, relative to the first-best solution, the government has an incentive to over-provide health care to low-income individuals. When crossborder health care takes place, this incentive is solely explained by that overprovis...

Terrorism preparedness training for occupational health professionals.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess occupational health professionals' terrorism preparedness and perceptions of worksite readiness. METHODS Questionnaire data were collected at the conclusion of an educational workshop on disaster response. RESULTS Participants reported increased confidence in clinical skills and the ability to avoid exposure while providing care to victims...

Reflections on Health Tourism and Cross-Border Health Care