National Preparedness Month — September 2017

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National Preparedness Month — September 2013

The Effect of Teaching Principles of Hospital Preparedness According to the National Program on Preparedness of Shahid Motahari Burns Hospital of Tehran in Response to Disasters

Background: In the event of a disaster, hospitals and health care centers are among the first response units that their efficient and timely health care provision can have a crucial and decisive role in reducing mortality and rescuing injured patients. Accidents and disasters always have a negative impact on public health and welfare of their damaged population and health care measures are the ...

National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: terrorism preparedness among office-based physicians, United States, 2003-2004.

OBJECTIVES This investigation describes terrorism preparedness among U.S. office-based physicians and their staffs in identification and diagnosis of terrorism-related conditions, training methods and sources, and assistance with diagnosis and reporting. METHODS The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) is an annual national probability survey of approximately 3,000 U.S. nonfederal,...

National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day — September 27, 2017

975 Opioid Overdose Outbreak — West Virginia, August 2016 981 Trends in Cervical Cancer Screening in Title X-Funded Health Centers — United States, 2005–2015 986 Respiratory and Ocular Symptoms Among Employees of an Indoor Waterpark Resort — Ohio, 2016 990 Update to CDC’s U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2016: Revised Recommendations for the Use of Hormonal Contraception...